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Back in business? / produced by Emily Marlow ; TVE.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 5 ; program 11.
- Life series 5 ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Sierra Leone.
- Tourism.
- Sierra Leone--Economic conditions--1961-.
- Sierra Leone.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (27 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Eleven years of civil war between 1991 and 2002 has left Sierra Leone in ruins. According to the United Nations it's the second poorest country in the world. Tens of thousands of people were killed and many more injured and displaced during the war. In May 2002, stability was restored when the former ruling party was returned to power in democratic elections. Now, after three years of peace, the rebuilding has begun, and Sierra Leone is looking for outside investment to kick-start its economy. Until now, most of Sierra Leone's foreign earnings have come from exporting diamonds. But it's rich in other natural resources. Apart from diamonds, there is titanium ore, gold and fisheries. Tourism, on the other hand, offers the promise of revenue with a far quicker turnaround time. Sierra Leone has miles of beautiful beaches. In a country that was once a war-zone, could tourism be one of the new industries that moves the country into the future?
- Participant:
- Narrator, Lucy Briers.
- Credits:
- Editor, Smita Malde ; executive producer, Brenda Kelly ; series producer, Dick Bower.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE ©2005; previously released in 2006.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l5bib Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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