Sierra Leone Transnational Issues 2016, CIA World Factbook

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Sierra Leone Transnational Issues 2016

SOURCE: 2016 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on February 11, 2016

Disputes - international:
Sierra Leone opposes Guinean troops' continued occupation of Yenga, a small village on the Makona River that serves as a border with Guinea; Guinea's forces came to Yenga in the mid-1990s to help the Sierra Leonean military to suppress rebels and to secure their common border but have remained there even after both countries signed a 2005 agreement acknowledging that Yenga belonged to Sierra Leone; in 2012, the two sides signed a declaration to demilitarize the area

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Sierra Leone Transnational Issues 2016 https://allcountries.org/world_fact_book_2016/sierra_leone/sierra_leone_issues.html SOURCE: 2016 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES