Kenema District
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Kenema District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Kenema, which is the third most populous city in Sierra Leone, after Freetown and Bo. Tongo is the second most populous city in the district. Other major towns in Kenema District include Blama and Yomboma. The district is the most populous district in the Eastern province with a population 609,873.[2] Kenema District has an area of 6,053 km2 (2,337 sq mi) and comprises sixteen chiefdoms.
The District of Kenema borders
The
Kenema District is a political stronghold of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). Since Independence in 1961 to present, the vast majority of the people of Kenema District support the Sierra Leone People's Party.
Kenema District is the home district of the former
Major towns
Kenema District has four cities with a population of at least 40,000.
Government
Kenema District is governed with a district council form of government, which is headed by a District Council Chairman, who is the highest local government official in the district. The District Council Chairman is responsible for the general management of the district. The District Council Chairman is elected directly by the residents of Kenema District every four years. The current District Council Chairman of Kenema District Council is Senesi Manssary of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), who easily won the 2012 District Chairperson election with 80.30%, defeating his main opponent Doris Saffa Nyangbe of the All People's Congress (APC) who took 15.49%.[1]
Kenema District is a reliable political stronghold of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), the main opposition party in Sierra Leone. The District overwhelmingly supports the SLPP by a large majority in Presidential, Parliamentary and local councils elections. The SLPP have won every Sierra leone presidential elections in the District by a large majority; including the 2012 Presidential election, when the SLPP presidential candidate Julius Maada Bio won 77.9% of the vote in the District, as he easily defeated the incumbent president Ernest Bai Koroma in the District who took only 18.7%.[4]
Members of Parliament
Kenema District currently has eleven
Demographics of Kenema District
The estimated population of Kenema District was 515,461.
Economy
Kenema has a mixed economy, made up of gold and diamond mining as well as agricultural production of coffee, cacao and rice.
Sport
Kenema is home to Sierra Leonean Premier League club the
Notable people from Kenema District
- J. B. Dauda, Sierra Leone Minister of Finance
- Mohamed Kallon, football star
- Paul Kpaka, football star
- Patrick Daniel Koroma, Bishop of Kenema
- Andrew Lungay, Politician
- Emmerson Bockarie, Musician
Administrative divisions
Chiefdoms
Pre-2017Prior to the 2017 local administrative reorganization, Kenema District was made up of sixteen chiefdoms as the third level of administrative subdivision. |
Post-2017After the 2017 local administrative reorganization, Kenema District was made up of seventeen chiefdoms as the third level of administrative subdivision.
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Major towns
References
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "GeoHive - Sierra Leone population statistics". Archived from the original on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ http://www.nec-sierraleone.org/index_files/STATEMENT%20%20FROM%20NEC%20CHAIRPERSON%20(press%20district).pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ World Gazetteer: Kenema - profile of geographical entity including name variants [dead link]
- ^ https://sierraleone.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Population%20structure%20Report_1.pdf.
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External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070121122533/http://www.statehouse-sl.org/member-parliament.html
- "Kenema District" at kenemadistrict.org Archived 2019-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Sierra Leone Encyclopedia (Final 2004 census data.)