Freetown

Economy

The city lays out of a port on the Atlantic Ocean, which makes of it the most important city for the economy of the country.

Local industry turns around the export of Poisson S, Riz and Cigarette S, of the refining of the Pétrole and the size of Diamant S.

History

The first people who started to build the city were old Esclave S released by British abolitionists in 1787. It is in 1792 that the city was baptized Freetown.

Of 1808 with 1874, the city is the capital of the Africa Britannique of the West.

During the Second world war, the port was used as a basis naval soldier for the British.

The city was the theater of violent one street battles in the Années 1990, at the time of the Civil war.

Recent developments

The capital Freetown sierra-léonaise will illuminate in December 2007, announced the authorities on November 14th, 2007, after two decades of risks in the electric, partial and irregular supply, charged to the civil war (1991-2001) and a bad management.

A contract was allotted on November 13rd, 2007 to the Belgian company Global Trading Group, whose seat is in Antwerp, for the production of 15 megawatts electricity in Freetown, during the 12 following months, declared in AFP the Minister for Energy and Electricity, Hafsatu Kabbah.

“The company tendered lowest of 32.429.873 dollars”, specified the minister. The project must be financed mainly by the World Bank, for a sum of 30 million dollars, according to the same source.

Characteristics

The Créole S, have a big role in the city, even if they represent only one minority.

It is in this city that is the Université of Sierra Leone.

The city is twinned with Kingston upon Hull with the the United Kingdom.

Simple: Freetown

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