Kenema District

Kenema is a district of Sierra Leone with about 498,000 inhabitants. It belongs to the province of the Eastern and located in the southeast of the country, on the border with Liberia. Its capital city is Kenema, more cities are Pandebu, Blama Panguma, Barma and Boajibu. The district is divided ( chiefdoms ) and the town of Kenema in 16 chiefdoms.

Kenema covers an area of 6053 km ² and is named after the Western Area Urban ( the country's capital, Freetown ) the most populated district. The highest elevation is the Kambui 555 meters above the sea.

The population belongs mainly to the ethnic Mende and Temne of; both Muslims and Christians are represented here. The economy of the Kenema District is in gold and diamond mining, coffee, cocoa and rice cultivation. Hundreds of thousands of Liberian refugees fleeing the civil war in Liberia until 2003 by Kenema and in the neighboring district of Bo.

The district decreed in 2006 over 91 health facilities, including a state hospital, a government hospital, a mission hospital, two missions and three private clinics. 2005 1.9% of the residents were HIV -positive. 2004/2005 there were 475 primary and 34 secondary schools. The literacy rate in 2004 was for the city of Kenema in 56% (67% for men and 46 % for women), the rest of the district it was 21 % (men 30 %, women 13%), less than in the district Koinadugu, who as district has the lowest literacy. 61.9 % of children in the city and 44.2 % in the rest area attended school.

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District in Sierra Leone
Eastern ( Sierra Leone)

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