In Sierra Leone, English is used as the medium of instruction for all primary education.

在塞拉利昂，所有基础教育都用英语授课。

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Amanda Pease is one of almost forty volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone.

阿曼达·皮斯是在塞拉利昂乡村学校服务的近40名志愿者之一。

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Europeans did not know of them until the 1500s, when Portuguese ships arrived on the coast of what is now Sierra Leone.

直到16世纪，当葡萄牙的船只抵达现在的塞拉利昂海岸时，欧洲人才知道它们的存在。

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The commission held public hearings in Sierra Leone's major cities and regional towns, but did not reach remote villages like Dugba-yeima.

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Sankoh,a former army corporal and photographer, led the first attacks on villages in a diamond-rich province of Sierra Leone in 1991.

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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, and acclaimed reggae, hip-hop and African beat star Rocky Dawuni, dubbed "Ghana's Bob Marley."

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And it is the example of Africans -- from Liberia to Mozambique to Sierra Leone -- that after the darkness of war, there can be a new day of peace and progress.

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It would have been "virtually impossible" for him to order anyone -- including the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the rebel group in Sierra Leone -- to carry out such actions, Taylor said, because he was too occupied with running his own country.

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The rising problem of global obesity was driven home to me recently in - of all places - Sierra Leone.

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