The capital, Freetown, was founded as a home for repatriated former slaves in 1787.
Their commander, Brigadier David Richards, argues that their success in Freetown justifies the force's creation.
Hastings in East Sussex was officially twinned with Hastings near Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2007.
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He was holding court in a modest sitting room above a shop in downtown Freetown.
Fighters on both sides found common cause against the people they saw as Freetown fatcats.
The order to move came on Wednesday, and Air Partner dispatched a Boeing 747 to Freetown, the capital.
It took around six hours to drive from the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, to Kabala in the north.
Ambassador PIERRE PROSPER (Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, U.S. Department of State): We wanted it in Freetown.
If the Freetown government wants to use mercenaries, as it has in the past, we should let it.
Only the efforts of a few hundred British paratroopers prevented the insurgents from seizing the capital of Freetown.
The rest of the country remains highly unstable, although the situation in the Freetown peninsula is significantly calmer.
The dog ran off towards Freetown and was captured by its handler at about 21:50 GMT on King Street.
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The heavily-armed Indian convoy heading out to the front line is intended to block the rebels route into Freetown.
RUF's founder, a former army photographer, Foday Sankoh, has been imprisoned in Freetown.
Uncertainty has led many people to flee Freetown for Guinea in recent days.
Sierra Leone must overcome a 1-0 deficit against Congo in Freetown or face almost three years without competitive international football.
If they stand for anything, it is the resentment that many rural Sierra Leoneans feel for the fat-cats of Freetown.
He has now set up the Craig Bellamy Foundation, which will start to build an academy in the capital Freetown.
The outbreak has been most severe in the capital, Freetown, where there have been 100 deaths in the last month alone.
The group also wants to build a museum in Freetown as part of efforts to shed light on the island's dark past.
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At the start of the 21st century, Freetown symbolises failure and despair.
Mr Dobrowolski, who came to Sierra Leone in 2008, started Flash because he was frustrated at the costly, shoddy car-hire services in Freetown.
It was the sobels who first seized Freetown this January and thus who suffered the most casualties in the bloody battle that threw them out.
The island's government has given the money to the international charity Oxfam which is working in the capital, Freetown, one of the hardest hit areas.
The movement co-operates with the remnant of the soldiers involved in the junior officers' junta that took over Freetown from 1997 until February last year.
If the Nigerians succeed, they will be acclaimed as guardians of democracy and saviours of Sierra Leone and the hundreds of foreign nationals stranded in Freetown.
This was regarded as a key factor behind his ability to rally thousands of impoverished youths behind his rebellion against the wealthy Freetown political class.
After he returned to Freetown, Mohamed Forna was sucked into politics.
Last month, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was joined by rebel leaders and international guests at a peace ceremony in an army camp in the capital, Freetown.
Elsewhere in Freetown, loudspeakers encourage people to pay up and tax-collectors go door-to-door, while queues of tax-payers have been seen to form at the city council.
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