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Bo, Sierra Leone

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Bo, also commonly referred to as Bo Town, is the third largest city in Sierra Leone by population (after Freetown and Kenema) and the largest city in the Southern Province. [1]

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Administration (government)

The term administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Bo Airport

Bo Airport is a regional airport located in Bo, the second largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Bo City Council

Bo City Council is the municipal government of the city of Bo, Sierra Leone's second largest city.

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Bo District

Bo District is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.

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Bo Rangers F.C.

Bo Rangers Football Club commonly known as Bo Rangers is a Sierra Leonean professional football club based in the country's second largest city of Bo.

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Bo School

The Bo Government Secondary School commonly known as Bo School is a secondary school located on a 13.5 acres (5.5 ha) property in the center of Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone.

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Bo Stadium

Bo Stadium is a newly built multi-purpose stadium located in Bo, Sierra Leone.

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Bo Teacher's College

Bo Teacher's College is a three year college located in Bo, the second largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Bunturabie Jalloh

Bunturabie Jalloh (born 10 May 1998) is a Sierra Leonean swimmer.

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Capital Radio Sierra Leone

Capital Radio is a Sierra Leone radio station based at the Mammy Yoko Business Park in Aberdeen, Freetown.

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Carjacking

Carjacking is a robbery in which the item taken over is a motor vehicle.

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Christ the King College

Christ the King College (CKC) is a secondary school founded in 1954 in Bo, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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City council

A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.

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Direct election

Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons, or political party that they desire to see elected.

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Districts of Sierra Leone

The provinces of Sierra Leone are divided into 16 districts, as of July 2017.

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Dry season

The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Ernest Bai Koroma

Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the 4th President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018.

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Executive (government)

The executive is the organ exercising authority in and holding responsibility for the governance of a state.

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Expatriate

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than their native country.

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Fourah Bay College

Fourah Bay College is a public university in the neighborhood of Mount Aureol in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Harmattan

The Harmattan is a season in the West African subcontinent, which occurs between the end of November and the middle of March.

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Harold Logie Tucker

Harold Logie Tucker (born December 13, 1968) is Sierra Leonean Politician and the current Mayor of Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone.

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Home invasion

In some parts of the United States and some other English speaking countries home invasion is an illegal and usually forceful entry to an occupied, private dwelling with intent to commit a violent crime against the occupants, such as robbery, assault, rape, murder, or kidnapping.

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Homicide

Homicide is the act of one human killing another.

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Hospitality

Hospitality refers to the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.

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Hunting

Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so.

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Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, Bo

The Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral also simply called Cathedral of Bo, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church, and is located in the town of Bo the second largest in population (behind Freetown, the capital) and of the Southern Province, in the African country of Sierra Leone.

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Independence

Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory.

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Joe Robert Pemagbi

Joe Robert Pemagbi (born 22 November 1945 in Bo) is a Sierra Leonean diplomat.

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Kakua Rangers F.C.

The Kakua Rangers of Bo is a Sierra Leonean football club based in Bo, the second largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Kanja Sesay

Alhaji Ibrahim Kanja Sesay (born in 1955 in Bo, Sierra Leone) is a leading political figure in Sierra Leone.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kenema

Kenema is the second largest city in Sierra Leone (after Freetown), and the largest city in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.

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Kilometre

The kilometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: km; or) or kilometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the road network of the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used.

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Krio language

Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone.

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Leslie Probyn

Sir Leslie Probyn (23 February 1862 – 17 December 1938) was an administrator for the British Empire.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Literacy

Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.

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Local election

In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Mende language

Mende (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia.

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Mende people

The Mende people (also spelled Mendi) are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, have roughly the same population.

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Mile

The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.

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Mining in Sierra Leone

The mining industry of Sierra Leone accounted for 4.5 percent of the country's GDP in 2007 and minerals made up 79 percent of total export revenue with diamonds accounting for 46 percent of export revenue in 2008.

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Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour in British English) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Nabih Berri

Nabih Berri (نبيه بري; born 28 January 1938) is a Lebanese politician who has been the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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Nepean Stars F.C.

The Nepean Stars of Bo is a Sierra Leonean football club based in Bo, Sierra Leone.

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Njala University

Njala University (NU) is a public university located in Njala, Moyamba District, Sierra Leone.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Provinces of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is divided into four provinces (until 2017, three) and one Western Area; these are further divided into 16 districts (previously 14), and the districts are further divided into 190 (previously 149) chiefdoms.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Residency (domicile)

Residency is the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place.

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Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Sallieu Bundu

Sallieu Bundu (born January 1, 1984 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) nicknamed Teacher, is a Sierra Leonean footballer.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.

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Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate

The Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era.

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Sierra Leone Government Railway

The Sierra Leone Government Railway operated in Sierra Leone from 1897 to 1974.

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Sierra Leone National First Division

Sierra Leone National First Division is the second highest football league in Sierra Leone, after the Sierra Leone National Premier League.

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Sierra Leone National Premier League

Sierra Leone National Premier League is the top professional football league in Sierra Leone.

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Sierra Leone People's Party

The Sierra Leone People's Party (abbreviated SLPP) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with the All People's Congress (APC).

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Southern Province, Sierra Leone

The Southern Province is one of the four provinces of Sierra Leone.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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Tropical climate

A tropical climate in the Köppen climate classification is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures of at least.

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Tropical monsoon climate

A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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Vocational school

A vocational school, sometimes also called a trade school, career center, or vocational college, is a type of educational institution, which, depending on country, may refer to secondary or post-secondary education designed to provide vocational education, or technical skills required to perform the tasks of a particular and specific job.

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Warwick District

Warwick is a local government district of central Warwickshire in England.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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Wusu Sannoh

Wusu Sannoh is a Sierra Leonean politician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo,_Sierra_Leone

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