Koindu
Koindu
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Koindu[2] is a town in Kailahun District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Koindu should not be confused with Koidu, which is a major diamond mining town in Kono District[3] and market center.[4] The population of Koindu is estimated at 16,751. Koindu lies approximately 63 miles from Kenema and about 230 miles east of Freetown.
The population of Koindu is largely from the Kissi ethnic group.[5]
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Notable people
- Sahr Senesie, German football star
- Dr. Paul T. Yillia, research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Notes
- ^ "World Gazetteer: Koindu - profile of geographical entity including na…". Archived from the original on 12 April 2013.
- ^ Koindu (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ Hynes, Bridget. Children of the Borderlands: Young Soldiers in the Reproduction of Warfare. Ann Arbor, Michigan. p. 179. dissertation at Conflict Resolution Institute, University of Denver.
- ISBN 978-1-4053-8070-6.
- ISBN 978-0-8204-2180-3.