Sierra Leone Resources--Government

Discuss and reflect on Sierra Leone national issues at this web site recently developed by John Leigh, former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the U.S. and former candidate for President.

www.bintumani.com

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Other Sites about/from Government

Africa South of the Sahara: Sierra Leone

http://www.sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/
africa/sierra.html. Excellent list of resources, esp. for online news articles and documents of governments and international agencies.

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP)

Carleton University. Provides country rankings, on-line presentations and a mapping component, risk assessments, regional conflict analysis, early warning research, and open-source data, measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic s

tress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages. "Our database currently includes statistical data measures for over hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning fifteen years. These indicators are drawn from a variety of open sources." Statistics for African countries are sometimes not available. Has, in Adobe pdf, the full text of Conflict Risk Assessment Report: West Africa: Mano River Union and Senegambia (01/04/2002) 369K; Democratic Republic of Congo: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 25K; Sierra Leone: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 35K. http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/

Documents about Sierra Leone. Important documents—speeches, government agreements, etc. http://www.sierra-leone.org/documents.html

Global Policy Forum - Sierra Leone

Has full text U.N. resolutions, reports, journal and newspapers articles, covering 1998 to date, and a link to the Sandline Report - UK Select Committee on Foreign Affairs (1999) - "A UK government report on the 'Sandline Affair', which saw the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office implicated in a Sierra Leone arms trafficking scandal." The Forum, in New York City, seeks to make the U.N. more responsive to citizen concerns. www.globalpolicy.org/security/
issues/slindex.htm

Sierra Leone Encyclopedia: Government of Sierra Leone

Excellent basics and additional information. On the home page, hover on "Government of Sierra Leone." http://www.daco-sl.org/encyclopedia/