McCulloch reports that at that time, amongst Sierra Leone's largest present-day ethnolinguistic group, the Mende, who then had about 560, 000 people, about 15 per cent of the population ( i. e. 84, 000 ) were domestic slaves.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Sir Albert's leadership was briefly challenged by Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister John Karefa-Smart, who questioned Sir Albert's succession to the SLPP leadership position.

Between 1991 and 2001, about 50, 000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war.

The UN disarmament and rehabilitation program for Sierra Leone's fighters was completed in February 2004, by which time more 70, 000 former combatants had been helped.

UN forces returned primary responsibility for security in the area around the capital to Sierra Leone's police and armed forces in September 2004 ; it was the last part of the country to be turned over.

Sierra Leone's economic development has always been hampered by an overdependence on mineral exploitation.

The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces ( RSLAF ) is the armed forces of Sierra Leone, responsible for the territorial security of Sierra Leone's border and defending the national interests of Sierra Leone, within the framework of its international obligations.

The RSLN was an arm of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces that is responsible sea patrol of Sierra Leone's territorial waters.

Their primary responsibility is to protect and safeguard the territorial integrity of Sierra Leone's sea.

Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political center.

High Sierra arranged file information in a dense, sequential layout to minimize nonsequential access by using a hierarchical ( eight levels of directories deep ) tree file system arrangement, similar to UNIX and FAT.

Native from Cayey, Puerto Rico, Golden coquís have only been found in areas of dense bromeliad growth in the Sierra de Cayey of Puerto Rico between 647 and 785 metres above sea level.

They are rarely very dense, and visitors accustomed to seeing Ponderosa forests in the Sierra Nevada may come to two opposite, and fallacious, conclusions: 1 ) That the pines were logged, and all we see left is a small percentage of survivors ; or 2 ) that they were all planted.

Golden coquís have only been found in areas of dense bromeliad growth in the Sierra de Cayey of Puerto Rico between 647 and 785 metres above sea level.

The Sierra Madre Mountain Range serves as the eastern wall of Luzon Island that protects inhibitants from tropical cyclones usually coming from the Pacific Ocean.

In Santa Cruz de la Sierra, at the east side of the country, the tropical weather allows a Brazilian-type Carnival, with agropuations of people called " Comparsas " dancing traditional songs in matching uniforms.

Like the rest of Sierra Leone, Freetown has a tropical climate with a rainy season from May through to October ; the balance of the year represents the dry season.

The city of Xalapa is located beneath the volcanic peaks of the Sierra Madre Oriental, at an elevation that oscillates from 1400 metres to 1700 metres above sea level, and is surrounded in lush tropical vegetation.

The ackee, also known as achee, akee apple or akee ( Blighia sapida ) is a member of the Sapindaceae ( soapberry family ), native to tropical West Africa in Cameroon, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

* The Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia is in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and despite its tropical latitude is almost arid, receiving almost no rainfall for seven to eight months of the year and being incapable of cultivation without irrigation.

They were first issued by such tropical climates as Sierra Leone in February 1964 and Tonga in April 1969 in an attempt to avoid the tendency of traditional water-activated stamps to stick together in humid conditions.

The strait is too small to allow the passage of huge amounts of floodwaters created during years that have tropical storms lined up, one after another, dropping torrential rainfall and melting snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains simultaneously.

The department encompasses almost the entire length of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range although there is a wide difference in altitude across the department, from heights of above mean sea level to as low as above sea level, encompassing an equally wide variation in local climate, ranging from mountain peaks where the temperature sometimes falls below freezing to tropical lowland rainforest.

It is native to tropical western Africa, in Sierra Leone and Liberia, growing in tropical rainforests.

Also, as one ascends to the higher parts of the Sierra del Merendón cloudy mountain forest and tropical rain forest.

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff ( March 6, 1912 – May 16, 1994 ) was an anthropologist, known for his holistic approach and his in-depth fieldwork among tropical rainforest cultures ( e. g. Tucano ) in Amazonia and also among dozens of indigenous groups in Colombia in the Caribbean Coast ( the Kogi Amerindians of the Sierra Nevada ), as well as among Pacific Coast, Llanos savannahs, and in the Andean and inter-Andean regions as well as in other areas of Colombia.

Like the rest of Sierra Leone, Bo has a tropical climate with a rainy season from May to October and a dry season from November to April.

The castle ’ s ruins are deteriorating rapidly in Sierra Leone ’ s tropical climate.

The island has over of tropical beaches and has been earmarked by the Ministry for Tourism and Development of Sierra Leone for tourism development.

The sky islands are the northernmost of the Madrean pine-oak woodlands, and are classified as part of the Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical coniferous forests biome.

Slug densities in these outlying areas in the Columbia Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, and areas south of Santa Cruz are low compared to densities in the coastal coniferous rainforest belt and are rather restricted to damp areas near creeks, ravines, and gullies.

The climate of the Sierra Madre Oriental is drier than the rainforest areas further south in Mexico.

Sierra Leone's last remaining stand of rainforest is at Gola.

* John Muir Wilderness ( entirely in Sierra National Forest and Inyo National Forest / partly in Fresno County, CA ; Mono County, CA ; Madera County, CA )

* South Sierra Wilderness ( entirely in Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest / partly in Tulare County, CA )

Steve Roper called this route " one of the classic routes of the Sierra, partly because of its spectacular location and partly because it was the first really big wall to be climbed in the range.

The company decided also to stretch the wheelbase to accommodate 2 + 2 seating, which was partly done by ex-Ford Europe engineers who had worked on the Sierra Cosworth and XR4x4.

* Monarch Wilderness ( partly in Sierra NF )

In addition to the war in Liberia, the rebel group sponsored Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) subversion against the military government in Sierra Leone, partly as a strategy to gain control of the local trade in diamonds.

* Ansel Adams Wilderness ( mostly in Sierra NF and partly in Devils Postpile NM )

* South Sierra Wilderness ( partly in Sequoia NF )