On its web page titled U.S. Relations with Sierra Leone, the State Department gushes with warmth and affection for the African country—once called “the ‘Province of Freedom’—which remains among the world’s poorest countries, ranked 180th out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index in 2011.
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