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Kenema, town, southeastern Sierra Leone. Located on the government railway and at a gap in the Kambui Hills, the town is the centre of the Alluvial Diamond Mining Scheme Area and the site of the Government Diamond Office (1959), concerned with the exportation of diamonds. It is also an important agricultural market town for the Mende people and the centre of the timber industry of Sierra Leone. The area’s production of cocoa, coffee, palm oil and kernels, furniture, and wood carvings is transported mainly by road to Freetown for sale and export. Kenema is the site of government, church, and private secondary schools, a Roman Catholic teacher-training college for women, a technical institute, a government library, and private hospitals. Pop. (2004) 128,402.

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