GOVERNMENT AND CABINET OF SIERRA LEONE

Head of State: President Ernest Bai Koroma
Ernest Bai Koroma's leadership experience and vision of renewal in Sierra Leone represents the grassroots of Sierra Leone and the disadvantaged. Throughout Sierra Leone is recognize for his unblemished public record.

Vice President: Samuel Sam-Sumana

Cabinet Ministers:

• Finance
• Foreign Affairs
• Information and Communications
• Mineral Resources
• Justice and Attorney General
• Health
• Housing and Infrastructural Development
• Defence
• Agriculture and Food Security
• Lands, Country Planning and Environment
• Presidential and Public Affairs
• Internal Affairs
• Trade and Industry
• Education, Youth and Sport
• Marine Resources
• Energy and Power
• Tourism and Cultural Affairs
• Social Welfare
• Employment
• Transport and Aviation

Judicial Branch: Supreme Court - Appeals Court - High Court

Independence: 27 April 1961 (from UK)

National Holiday: Independence Day 27 April

Legal system: Based upon English Law and customary indigenous Laws

Suffrage: 18 years of age - universal

Flag Description: Three equal horizontal bands of light green (top), white (middle), light blue (bottom).