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Sierra Leone Civil War

The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002) pitted the government against the RUF rebels backed by Charles Taylor's Liberia, killed about 50,000 people, displaced over 2 million, and ended with the Lomé Accord, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Special Court that convicted Taylor.

Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate

The Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate was a British West African possession: a Crown colony at Freetown from 1808 and a hinterland protectorate from 1896 until independence in 1961.

Sierra Leone diamond mining reforms

Sierra Leone diamond mining reforms are the legal, institutional, and revenue-sharing changes made since the 1991–2002 civil war to curb smuggling and fund mining communities.

Sierra Leone national football team

Sierra Leone national football team, the Leone Stars, men's national team governed by the SLFA (founded 1960, FIFA/CAF). Never at a World Cup; three Africa Cup of Nations appearances: 1994, 1996, and 2021.

Sierra Leone People's Party

The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is one of Sierra Leone's two dominant political parties. Founded in 1951 by Sir Milton Margai, it led the country to independence in 1961.

Sierra Leone River Estuary

Sierra Leone River Estuary: 295,000-ha estuarine and mangrove wetland near Freetown, Ramsar site no. 1014 since 1999, third-largest natural harbor, key waterbird and manatee habitat, an MPA with weak legal protection.

Sierra Leone under Siaka Stevens

Sierra Leone under Siaka Stevens was the 1968 to 1985 period in which he ruled, first as Prime Minister, then as President of a one-party state.

Oct 10, 2026

Sierra Leonean leone

The Sierra Leonean leone is the currency of Sierra Leone, issued by the Bank of Sierra Leone and redenominated in 2022, when 1,000 old leones became one new leone.

Sierra Leonean refugee crisis

The Sierra Leonean refugee crisis was the mass displacement of Sierra Leone's population during the civil war of 1991 to 2002, which drove about 460,000 refugees into Guinea and Liberia.

Sierra Madre (Philippines)

The Sierra Madre is the longest mountain range in the Philippines, running 540 kilometers along Luzon's eastern coast across 10 provinces, holding about 40 percent of the country's forest cover.

Sierra Madre de Chiapas

Sierra Madre de Chiapas (Chiapas Sierra): 280-km Pacific-coast mountain range in southern Mexico averaging 2,000 m, part of the Maya block near the Cocos-Caribbean-North American triple junction, uplifted mainly in the Miocene, home to El Triunfo and La Sepultura biosphere reserves.

Sierra Madre del Sur (landform)

Sierra Madre del Sur, a mountain range in southern Mexico arcing from Michoacán to Oaxaca along the Pacific coast; about 1,100 km long, a Tertiary magmatic province, and a high-endemism biogeographic province and pine-oak ecoregion.

Sierra Madre del Sur (protected area)

Sierra Madre del Sur, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 170 (not a formal protected area), Neotropic coastal rivers of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, draining Pacific slopes of the Sierra Madre del Sur; major rivers Petatlán, Papagayo, Verde, Colotepec.

Sierra Madre Occidental

Sierra Madre Occidental, western Mexico's great silicic volcanic plateau and mountain range (also Sierra Tarahumara), runs over 2,000 km from the US border to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, formed by Farallon subduction and Gulf of California rifting.

Sierra Madre Oriental

Sierra Madre Oriental: major folded mountain range in eastern Mexico, one of Mexico's 14 biogeographic provinces, over 1,000 km long, a Jurassic-Cretaceous limestone fold-thrust belt deformed during the Laramide orogeny.

Sierra McClain

Sierra Aylina McClain, American actress and singer born 1994 in Georgia; McClain Sisters member; known as Nessa in Empire, Tanya Clifton in Mindhunter, and Grace Ryder in 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–2023), leaving before season 5 in a contract dispute.

Sierra McCormick

Sierra McCormick (Sierra Nicole McCormick, born 1997) is an American actress known for Olive Doyle on Disney's A.N.T. Farm, Fay Crocker in The Vast of Night, and roles in Some Kind of Hate and American Horror Stories.

Sep 19, 2026

Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión

The Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión is a 25 km coastal mountain range in Murcia, southeast Spain, whose silver-lead ores were mined from Phoenician times until 1992.

Sierra Mist

Sierra Mist was a lemon-lime flavored soft drink produced by PepsiCo, introduced in the United States in 1999 to compete against Sprite and 7 Up, and discontinued in January 2023.

Oct 20, 2026

Sierra Morena de Sevilla UNESCO Global Geopark

Sierra Morena de Sevilla UNESCO Global Geopark, formerly Sierra Norte de Sevilla, is a 177,484-hectare natural park in northern Seville province, Spain, a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, home to the El Pintado 1 Ordovician–Silurian GSSP.

Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada: major mountain range of eastern California, about 640 km long, a granitic Mesozoic batholith with Mount Whitney (4,421 m); its snowpack supplies about one-third of California's water.

Sierra Nevada (Spain)

Sierra Nevada (Spain), the snowy range of Granada and Almería in Andalusia, is the Iberian Peninsula's highest mountain chain, with Mulhacén at 3,482 m, a 1999 national park, 1986 biosphere reserve, endemic-rich flora, and a major ski resort.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is an American craft brewery founded in Chico, California, in 1979–1980 by Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi, known for its Cascade-hopped Pale Ale.

Sierra Nevada Corporation

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is a privately held American aerospace and national security company, founded in 1963 and owned by Eren and Fatih Ozmen since 1994.

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Biosphere Reserve

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biósfera, UNESCO MAB 1979), northern Colombia; world's highest coastal mountain (5,775 m, 42 km from the Caribbean), ranked the most irreplaceable protected area for threatened species, home of the Kogui, Wiwa, Arhuaco, and Kankuamo peoples.