Sewafe

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Sewafe, Kono District
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CountryFile:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone
ProvinceEastern Province
DistrictKono District
Population
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Sewafe is a diamond-mining town in Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The town is 30 miles west of Koidu Town (the largest city in Kono District) and about 220 miles east of Freetown, on the highway linking Koidu Town to Kenema. Sewafe had an estimated population of 5,249 in 2009.[1] The town has a government hospital and two police stations run by the Sierra Leone Police Force.

Ethnicity

The population of Sewafe is almost entirely part of the Kono ethnic group. Both the Kono language and the Krio language are widely spoken.

Education

The town has four primary schools, two secondary schools, a police station. Like in all parts of Sierra Leone, primary education in the town is free and compulsory.[2]

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World Gazetteer: Jaiama-Sewafe - profile of geographical entity". archive.is. World Gazetteer. 9 February 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wang, Lianqin (2007), Education in Sierra Leone: Present Challenges, Future Opportunities, World Bank Publications, pp. 2–3 and 35, ISBN 978-0-8213-6868-8