Bank of Sierra Leone Bank of Sierra Leone The Bank of Sierra Leone is the central bank of Sierra Leone. It issues the country's currency, known as the Leone. The bank formulates and implements monetary policy, including foreign exchange. The current governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone is Dr.Patrick Saidu Conteh, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma, and took office in 2017 after he was approved by Parliament. He succeeded Dr. Kelfala Marah. The Bank Headquarters is at Siaka Stevens Street in the Central business district in Downtown Freetown. The Bank is engaged in policies to promote financial inclusion and is
Sierra Leone only source of income for many communities in a country still recovering from over a decade of civil war. In June 2005, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and BirdLife International agreed to support a conservation-sustainable development project in the Gola Forest in south eastern Sierra Leone, an important surviving fragment of rainforest in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. The current system of the Government of Sierra Leone is based on the 1991 Sierra Leone Constitution. Sierra Leone has a dominant unitary central government and