Sierra Leone : Declared a National Emergency

Sierra Leone : Declared a National Emergency

Sierra Leone’s President recently declared a national emergency on substance abuse to crack down on the rising use of synthetic drugs known as kush.

• Sierra Leone is a tropical country in West Africa.
• It is bordered on the north and east by Guinea, on the south by Liberia and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
• The nation is largely made up of lightly wooded hills with a concentration of mangrove swamps along the coast.
• Some of the major ones include the Rokel River, Taia River, Moa River and Sewa River.
• Sierra Leone was colonized in 1787 by formerly enslaved people arriving from England; other groups followed from Nova Scotia (1792) and Jamaica (1800).
• They were sponsored and governed by the private Sierra Leone Company until 1808, when Britain made Sierra Leone a crown colony.
• In 1961, Sierra Leone became independent of the UK.