Promoting Sustainable Democratic Consolidation in Sierra Leone

Anglický jazyk

Promoting Sustainable Democratic Consolidation in Sierra Leone

Vydavateľstvo: AuthorHouse UK
Rok vydania: 2019
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 235 x 157 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781728393261

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O knihe

The Republic of Sierra Leone is situated along the West African Coast. It is
bounded on the north and north east by Guinea on the east and south by Liberia
and on the West by the Atlantic Ocean. Sierra Leone has a total land area of
72,000 km of which about 75% is cultivable. According to the 2015 census it has
a population of 7,092,113 million people. In 2018 the country was divided into
five regions including the Northern, Northern Western, Eastern and Southern
provinces. The provinces are further divided into sixteen districts and a total of
190 chiefdoms headed by Paramount chiefs.

Sierra Leone is characterized by favorable climate in terms of wet and dry seasons,
which makes it mainly suitable for agriculture production and the growing of
different types of crops in the country as a whole. Sierra Leone is suitable for
cattle rearing; groundnut and cashew nut farming, particularly in the north,
the eastern region grows coffee and cacao and the south, cacao, ginger and
piassava, oil-palm, rice, cassava and sweet potatoes all of which are grown in
every part of the country. The country has vast acres of arable land for agriculture
production. Apart from this agriculture potential, Sierra Leone is very rich in
natural resources such as diamonds, gold, iron ore, bauxite, rutile, forest as well
as marine resources etc. most of these resources can be found in both south
and east of the country and recent, the north also has discovered some of these
minerals such as bauxite and iron ore, diamonds have also been discovered.

Sierra Leone is among the leading producers of Iron Ore, Diamonds and Bauxite
in the world