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27 unusual facts about Freetown


Action of 7 February 1813

Meanwhile, on 29 January, Lieutenant Pascoe had arrived on Freetown, with some of his men, and informed Amelia of the presence of what he believed to be three French frigates at Tamara.

Bees in Paradise

The Queen of Paradise Island, a tiny uncharted isle somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean (northwest of Freetown, Sierra Leone), is not happy.

Brima Sesay

Having been initiated into active football, small attouga made a name for himself while playing in a series of junior league competitions played all over Freetown.

Capital Radio Sierra Leone

Capital Radio is a Sierra Leone radio station based at the Mammy Yoko Business Park in Aberdeen, Freetown.

Clapham Sect

They founded Freetown in Sierra Leone, the first major British colony in Africa, whose purpose in Thomas Clarkson's words was "the abolition of the slave trade, the civilisation of Africa, and the introduction of the gospel there".

Dele Charley

Raymond Caleb Ayodele "Dele" Charley (27 March 1948, Freetown – 8 May 1993, Freetown) was a Sierra Leonean writer and playwright in English and Krio language.

Freetown, Massachusetts

The representative for Precinct I, which is in the 6th Bristol District, is Carole Fiola (D-Fall River).

Gino Strada

Today, Emergency operates eight hospitals in areas of conflict, including a surgical hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and a hospital in Lashkar-Gah, Afghanistan.

Glocal Forum

The WAF program is active in six pilot cities: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Asmara, Eritrea; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Kabul, Afghanistan; Kigali, Rwanda; and Nablus, Palestine and additional cities are expected to join in the coming years.

Heinrich Liebe

On 9 April 1941, Liebe set sail for operations off Freetown, Africa.

Human trafficking in Sierra Leone

The government does not operate its own shelter, but refers victims to the nation’s only trafficking victim shelter, which is located in Freetown and operated by IOM.

Michael Banton

He subsequently wrote books about the settlement of rural immigrants in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and on the behaviour of the white British towards New Commonwealth immigrants.

Nicholas G.J. Ballanta

Nicholas George Julius Taylor was born March 14, 1893 in Kissy, near the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Parliament of Sierra Leone

The meeting place of Parliament is at the House of Parliament building at Tower Hill in the capital Freetown.

Paul Güssfeldt

The expedition sailed to the coast of the Kingdom of Loango, but was shipwrecked near Freetown on January 14, 1873, and lost all its stores and equipment.

Silver Bluff Baptist Church

George also founded a congregation and Baptist church in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he and his family migrated in 1792.

St. Edward's Primary School

Saint Edward's Primary School is an all-boys primary (elementary) school currently located at Fort Street in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Takeo Yoshikawa

While on intelligence duty he intercepted a shortwave radio message in plain English that 17 troop transports were en route to England, having cleared the port of Freetown.

The Heart of the Matter

Greene, a British intelligence officer in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drew on his experience there.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

UBS Mayu

After working up, Fal served for a time in the North Atlantic, before moving to Freetown for service on the West African convoy route between Lagos, Takoradi and Freetown.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1688

It noted that the trial could not take place in the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown due to security concerns, nor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as it was engaged with other tasks, and that no other tribunal existed in Africa.

Veer Singh Dillon

The son of Devinder Singh was a war hero in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani conflict and has even won honours for the same, while his grandson is still actively serving in the Army of the republic of India and also played a role in the liberation of Freetown in West Africa on Behalf of the United Nations' forces.

VMGR-252

The decade of the nineties started in earnest with VMGR-252 deploying aircraft to Freetown, Sierra Leone in support of 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit operations following civil unrest in nearby Liberia.

VMM-264

Over a two-month period the Black Knights supported Marines and the U.S. Embassy over long distances in austere, inclement conditions from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Wolfgang Lüth

U-43 was due to depart Lorient on a war patrol to an area off Freetown, west Africa, but early on 4 February 1941, she sank while tied to the Ysere, (an old sailing ship which was used as a floating pier).

Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy

Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, formerly known as Pat Maddy (born 27 December 1936, Freetown), is a Sierra Leonean writer, poet, actor, dancer, director and playwright.


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Bank of Sierra Leone

The Bank Headquarter is at Siaka Stevens Street in the Central business district in Downtown Freetown.

Cassandra Garber

Mrs. Garber also witnessed the launch of the Krio union 'Kotoku' alongside the current mayor of Freetown, Winstanley Bankole Johnson.

Constance Cummings-John

During these years Cummings-John gained a licenciate from the London College of Preceptors, and in 1952 the Governor of Sierra Leone, Sir George Beresford-Stooke, appointed her to the Freetown Council.

Cry Freetown

Some of the persons interviewed by Sorious Samura in Cry Freetown (i.e. Father Giuseppe Berton and some baby soldiers) are the same interviewed, in 2012, ten years later, in the Documentary Life does not lose its value (Original title, Italian language, La vita non perde valore), by Wilma Massucco (ITA/ENG - 53' - Bluindaco Productions © 2012).

Dr. Oloh

Israel Olorunfeh Cole, commonly known as Dr. Oloh was born on March 20, 1944 in the mountain village of Leicester, near Freetown in the Western Area of Sierra Leone to a Nigerian mother and a Creole father.

Frances Claudia Wright

Deciding to settle in the Creole society of Freetown, Wright set up a practice and revived his father's Gloucester Street premises.

George William Nicol

George William Nicol (died 1884) was the first African Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone and was one of few African senior level colonial officials in Freetown during the 19th century.

Governor-in-chief

The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).

Jehu Jones

Jones is also the brother of Edward Jones, the first black college graduate who later immigrated to Freetown, Sierra Leone and was the first principal of Fourah Bay College.

Kanja Sesay

He holds a bachelor's degree from the Fourah Bay College in Freetown and a Master's degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in Hague, Netherlands in 1987.

Mariama

Mariama moved at the age of one with her family from Freetown, the hometown of her father, to Refrath the oldest part of the German city Bergisch Gladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia, from where her mother originates.

Olumbe Bassir

Born in Senegal in 1919, Olumbe Bassir was raised in the older part of the municipality of Freetown, Fourah Bay, by his parents Abdul and Isatu Bassir.

Patience Sonko-Godwin

Born in Banjul, Patience Sonko-Godwin was educated in the Gambia before going to St. Edwards Senior Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone to have her sixth form education.

Politics of Sierra Leone

Since 2004, each of the 13 districts and 6 major cities (Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Makeni, Koidu and Bonthe) has an elected Local Council which is the highest political authority in the district / city.

Profile Rock

Profile Rock, also known as the Old Man of Joshua's Mountain, is a 50-foot high granite rock formation located in Freetown, Massachusetts just outside Assonet village and near the Freetown State Forest.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown

On 15 January 2010, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bo was split off the Archdiocese of Freetown and Bo which is called Archdiocese of Freetown since then.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

However, before his slave-ship left port, it was boarded by a British Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was released.

Siege of Freetown

The Siege of Freetown was a battle during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence and National Security

The Ministry of Defence and National Security building is located in State Avenue at Tower Hill in central Freetown, a few distance from the State House.

Sorie Ibrahim Koroma

SI Koroma was educated at the Government Model Primary School in Freetown and received his secondary education at the Bo School in Bo.

Sorious Samura

The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999).

St John of God Hospital Sierra Leone

It is the only Sierra Leonean hospital outside of the capital Freetown which has a microbiological department run by the German NGO GLOBOLAB e.V. and is twinned with Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona.

Telecommunications in Sierra Leone

The national microwave radio relay trunk system connects the capital, Freetown to Bo and Kenema, with 5 mobile phone networks (GSM900) with national coverage.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1313

:(a) maintain the security of and major routes to Lungi and Freetown;

Velma Middleton

While touring with Armstrong in Sierre Leone, she had a stroke or heart attack on January 25, 1961 and died on February 10, 1961 in the Hill Station Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

VMM-261

During the deployment, the main body of the 22nd MEU participated in two major operations: Operation Guardian Retrieval, operating out of Brazzaville, Congo; and Operation Noble Obelisk, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which resulted in the evacuation of more than 2,500 American citizens and foreign nationals.

William Broughton Davies

His parents had been 'Aku' or Yoruba recaptives who had been rescued from slavery and had been desposited in Freetown, Sierra Leone.