1967 Sierra Leonean general election information

General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 17 March 1967. They were won by the opposition All People's Congress, marking the first time that a ruling...

the Sierra Leonean tragedy. Nova Publishers. pp. 33–35. ISBN 978-1-59454-671-6. Retrieved 17 June 2014. "End of The Exception". Time. 31 March 1967. Archived...

Coup in 1968. He led Sierra Leone briefly before handing power to Siaka Stevens, who had won the 1967 Sierra Leonean general election and with whom he had...

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...

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the long Sierra Leone civil war which the government fought against the Revolutionary United Front from 1991 to 2002, the 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état...

won the closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general elections over incumbent Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)...

Krio is also the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans living abroad. The Sierra Leone Creoles settled across West Africa in the nineteenth...

the RUF in exchange for conflict diamonds smuggled out of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leonean government eventually signed a ceasefire with the RUF that...

10 days later) 1962 Peruvian general election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre) 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka Stevens took the oath...

(April 14, 1927 – April 30, 1994) commonly known as S.I. Koroma was a Sierra Leonean politician, labor activist, and one of the founding members of the All...

July 1975) was the first prominent Sierra Leonean in the Sierra Leone Military during the colonial era. After Sierra Leone gained independence, he served...

minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai, the country's first Prime Minister. He was also the father of Sierra Leonean politician...

were known as Charles Heddle, a European African and John Ezzidio a Sierra Leonean. Both the official and unofficial members constituted the Legislative...

one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Femi Claudius Cole (born 1962), politician of the Unity Party and first Sierra Leonean woman to form...

influence in the political and economic development of the nation. Sierra Leonean women face extreme gender inequality. They experience high levels of...

(1 February 1929 – 5 March 2015) was a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. A founding member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), he later served...

Priscilla Schwartz is a Sierra Leonean lawyer, the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice (2018–2020) in Sierra Leone. Schwartz was...

Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy activist. Thomas Caulker (1846–1859), Luseni Alfred Morlu Brewah - Attorney General, Minister of...

members who break the rules of Parliament. The first Speaker of the Sierra Leonean House of Parliament was the Honourable Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston...

Legislative Council only consisted of a small minority of high status Sierra Leoneans nominated by the government. The goal of this institutional change...

of the Sierra Leone Police Force. Siaska Stevens was representing the All People's Congress (APC) party in 1967 when he won the general elections and became...