Under international pressure, President Sirleaf requested in March 2006 that Nigeria extradite Charles Taylor, who was then brought before an international tribunal in Sierra Leone to face charges of crimes against humanity, arising from events during the Sierra Leone civil war ( his trial was later transferred to The Hague for security purposes ).

Leone then chose Van Cleef to appear with Clint Eastwood again, this time as the primary villain in the classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Creoles can then replace the existing mix of languages to become the native language of a community ( such as the Chavacano language in the Philippines, Krio in Sierra Leone, and Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea ).

The SLPP, which was then the most popular political party in the colony of Sierra Leone, won the most seats in Parliament.

Charles Taylor — then leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia — reportedly helped form the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) under the command of former Sierra Leonean army corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh, an ethnic Temne from Tonkolili District in Northern Sierra Leone.

It then remained largely unchanged for 16 years until in 1995 when Defence Headquarters ( DHQ ) was established and the Sierra Leone Air Wing ( SLAW ) formed.

In late 1963, Eastwood's co-star on Rawhide, Eric Fleming, rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made western called A Fistful of Dollars, to be directed in a remote region of Spain by the then relatively unknown Sergio Leone.

Rabbi Leone di Modena wrote that if we were to accept the Kabbalah, then the Christian trinity would indeed be compatible with Judaism, as the Trinity closely resembles the Kabbalistic doctrine of the Sefirot.

Since then, British Gurkhas have served in Borneo during the Confrontation with Indonesia, in the Falklands conflict, and on various peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone, East Timor, Bosnia and Kosovo.

In 2006, the newly elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf formally requested his extradition, after which he was detained by UN authorities in Sierra Leone and then at the Penitentiary Institution Haaglanden in The Hague, awaiting trial.

Irish UNMIL soldiers then escorted Taylor aboard a UN helicopter to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was delivered to the SCSL.

It was then when Seger and Doug Brown were approached by Punch and Leone to write a song for the Underdogs, another local band who recently had a hit with a song called " Man in the Glass ".

Warren Lewis served in such postings as Belgium ( 1919 ), Aldershot ( November 1919 ), Sierra Leone ( 9 March 1921 to 23 March 1922 ), Colchester ( 4 October 1922 to December 1925 ), Woolwich ( January 1925 until April 1927 ), and China ( two tours of duty, the first beginning on 11 April 1927 in Kowloon, South China, then later in Shanghai, and ending in April 1930 ; the second beginning on 9 October 1931 and ending on 14 December 1932 ).

In 1971, then a corporal in the Sierra Leone army, he was cashiered from the army's signal corps and imprisoned for seven years at the Pademba Road Prison in Freetown for taking part in a mutiny.

It was involved in conflicts in Papua New Guinea in 1997 ( having a contract with the government under the then Prime Minister Julius Chan ) causing the Sandline affair, in 1998 in Sierra Leone ( having a contract with ousted President Kabbah ) and in Liberia in 2003 ( in a rebel attempt to evict the then-president Charles Taylor near the end of the civil war ).

The party dominated Sierra Leone's politics from it foundation in 1951 to 1967, When it lost the 1967 Sierra Leone parliamentary election to then main opposition All People's Congress ( APC ), lead by Siaka Stevens.

The party was in power from 1996 to 2007 when it again lost to then main opposition All People's Congress ( APC ), lead by Ernest Bai Koroma in the 2007 Sierra Leone presidential election.

Leone then turned his attention to Richard Harrison, who had recently starred in the very first Italian western, Gunfight at Red Sands ( Duello nel Texas ).

He then moved back to Sierra Leone where he lives with his mother in Grafton, east of Freetown, in a run-down house.

In 1750, Henry Laurens and Richard Oswald, British-American colonists, opened a major slave castle just up the Sierra Leone River on what was then called Bance Island ( now Bunce Island ).

Taken from the Western region of Africa in primarily the Krio and Mende populations of what is today Sierra Leone as slaves and transported to some areas of Brazil ( including Bahia ) the Gullah-Gheechee slaves were then sold to slave owners in what was then Charlestowne, South Carolina.

Assistant District Attorney Gerald Leone then appealed the judge's decision to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

According to tradition, Pietro Angelerio was born to parents Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in a town called Sant ' Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia ( Sicily ).

The Mane ( also called Mani ), southern members of the Mande language group, were a warrior people, well-armed and well-organized, who lived east and possibly somewhat north of present-day Sierra Leone, occupying a belt north of the coastal peoples.

During the 17th century, Muslim Fula from the Upper Niger and Senegal rivers moved into an area called Futa Jalon in the mountainous region north of present-day Sierra Leone.

In 1787, a plan was established to settle some of London's " Black Poor " in Sierra Leone in what was called the " Province of Freedom ".

While many of them later relocated to Sierra Leone, some of their descendants, called Fernandinos, can still be found in Malabo and the surrounding area, where they constitute a distinct ethnic group, speaking their own Afro-Portuguese pidgin dialect.

Descendants of the various freed slaves who landed in Sierra Leone between 1787 and 1792, are called the Creoles.

The principal adornment of these girls from the Bundu tribe in Sierra Leone is the adornment of bodies and faces with markings produced by the smearing on by the fingers of a substance called " wojeh ," composed of white clay and animal fat.

In some secondary schools in India, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Malaysia, Sierra Leone and Trinidad and Tobago the sixth and seventh years are called Lower and Upper Sixth respectively.

* In the right transept, the monument to Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano, called " Medeghino ", by Leone Leoni, and the adjacent Renaissance marble altar, decorated with gilt bronze statues.

Americo Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African-Americans ( who called themselves Americo Liberians ) who immigrated in the 19th century to become founders of Liberia and other colonies along the coast in places that would become Cote d ' Ivoire and Sierra Leone.

Time magazine has called Kabbah a " diamond in the rough " for his success as the first civilian elected ruler of Sierra Leone in 34 years and his role in the end of what became a decade long conflict from 1992 until 2000.

Sergio Leone, the director of such classic Westerns as Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and one of the directors Ford influenced the most, said it was his favorite John Ford film because " it was the only film where he ( Ford ) learned about something called pessimism.

500 BC ) reported an encounter a tribe of savage men and hairy women in what may have been Sierra Leone ; their interpreters called them " Gorillae ", a story which much later gave rise to the name of the gorilla species and could indeed have related to a great ape.

His recommendations called for more Canadian aid to Sierra Leone and more direct Canadian involvement to bring peace to the region.

He inaugurated a long series of triumphs in Hanover by composing, for the opening of the new opera house in 1689, an opera called Enrico il Leone, which was produced with extraordinary splendour and achieved an immense reputation.

In 1929, along with Carlo and Nello Rosselli he founded an anti-fascist movement called Giustizia e Libertà, becoming a leader of the Italian branch along with Leone Ginzburg, a Russian Jew from Odessa who had emigrated with his parents to Italy.

He has frequently been called upon by the US State Department, the National Democratic Institute, the Asia Foundation and other international bodies to provide leadership development on democracy building, including in the Russian Far East, the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Zaire, Sierra Leone, Angola, Korea, and as one of the first official to arrive in Bethlehem to offer disaster assistance after the Palestinian-Israeli army siege of the Church of the Nativity ended on May 10, 2002.

Another club from Bo Town called the Kakua Rangers plays in the Sierra Leone National First Division, the second highest football league in Sierra Leone, after the Sierra Leone National Premier League.

The Sierra Leone professional club called the Kamboi Eagles, which is based in Kenema, represent the city in the Sierra Leone National Premier League.