the capital of Sierra Leone and the country’s political, financial, trade, industrial, and cultural center. Located on the Atlantic coast, Freetown has an equatorial monsoon climate with dry and rainy seasons; temperatures average 24°C in August and 27°C in April, and annual precipitation ex...
Sierra Leone’s population is about 60% Muslim and 40% Christian, so after the main church in the capital, I suggest you head to check out the largest Mosque in this country too. It’s a beautiful building and several of Sierra Leone’s Christian presidents have visited. I really apprecia...
Population studyX chromosomeShort tandem repeatSierra LeoneA total of 550 individuals (265 males and 285 females) from Sierra Leone, a west-African coastal country, were genotyped using the Microreader 19X ID System kit. No significant deviations from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were observed. ...
The city's economy revolves largely around its harbour, which occupies a part of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River in one of the world's largest natural deep water harbours. Although the city has traditionally been the homeland of the Sierra Leone Creole people, the population of Freetow...
The heterogeneity of the pre-antiretroviral (pre-ART) population calls for more granular depictions of the cascade of HIV care. We studied a prospective cohort of persons newly diagnosed with HIV infection from a single center in Freetown, Sierra Leone, over a 12-month period and then traced ...
She called the first city level Covid 19 response meeting six weeks before the first cases were confirmed in Sierra Leone. A month after that meeting they had a plan which reflected the circumstances of Freetown where 47% of the population do not have access to running water and 35% of th...
This noble river is at least two leagues wide at its entrance, and has a safe and deep channel for ships of any burthen, and affords excellent anchorage at all seasons. It continues the same breadth for six or seven miles…On the north side of Sierra-Leone river the land is low and ...
In the population comparison study, we found that the Freetown population is genetically closer to geographically distinct West Africans and has a closer genetic relationship with the Bantu-speaking populations than other African populations.doi:10.1007/s00414-020-02417-7Han Wang...
In the population comparison study, we found that the Freetown population is genetically closer to geographically distinct West Africans and has a closer genetic relationship with the Bantu-speaking populations than other African populations.doi:10.1007/s00414-020-02417-7Wang, Han...
Freetown, capital, chief port, and largest city of Sierra Leone, on the rocky Sierra Leone Peninsula, at the seaward tip of a range of wooded hills, which were named Serra Leôa (“Lion Mountains”) by the Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra when he e