Facts on Sierra Leone - poor people, rich diamond fields


"...Diamonds, gold, bauxite and titanium ore accounted for about two-thirds of foreign exchange income before war and instability wrecked the economy..."

"...Mains electricity and piped water are rare even in the shanty towns that make up Freetown. There are few paved roads in the rest of the country, and 70 percent of the population survive on less than $1 a day..."
Courtesy - alertnet.org

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