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Bank and Public Holidays for Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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02 Feb 2012 (Presidency Office-Freetown) The Government of Sierra Leone has announced that the date of the upcoming non-working public holiday for the Milad An-Nabi (Prophet's Birthday) would be Saturday, February 4, 2012. • 09 Nov 2011 (State House Press Secretariat-Freetown) Sierra Leone's Acting Minister of Information and Communications, Sheka Tarawalie, has issued a statement ruling-out the rumours that Friday, November 11, 2011, would soon be declared a one-off non-working public holiday in Sierra Leone. • 03 Nov 2011 (Presidency Office-Freetown) The Office of the President of Sierra Leone has announced that the upcoming Eid-Ul-Adah and related non-working public holiday would fall on Sunday, November 6, 2011. • 30 Mar 2011 (Sierra Express Media-Freetown) The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, has announced that as from next year, International Women’s Day, on March 8, will be recognized as a public holiday throughout Sierra Leone. • 08 Sep 2010 (Sierra Express Media-Freetown) The Office of the President of Sierra Leone has declared Friday, September 10, 2010, as a national public holiday to mark the end of the month of Ramadan. • 12 Feb 2010 (State House Press Secretariat-Freetown) The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, has declared that the upcoming, February 18, Armed Forces Day, would be a one-off non-working public holiday. • 19 Sep 2009 (Office of the Vice President-Freetown) The Office of the Vice President of Sierra Leone has just issued a press release announcing that the Pray Day (End of Ramadan) public holiday's date had been changed to tomorrow, Sunday, September 20th, 2009. • 17 Sep 2009 (Presidency Office-Freetown) The Office of the President of Sierra Leone has announced that the feast of Eid-Ul-Fitri (Pray Day) will be observed on Monday, September 21st, 2009, and has thus declared Monday, September 21st, 2009, an official public holiday in Sierra Leone. • 07 Jan 2009 (African Press Agency-Freetown) Sierra Leone's national coordinator of the Coalition des organisations de la société civile, Charles Mambu, has indicated that he would soon re-iterate its call for the government of Sierra Leone to declare January 6 an annual commemorative public holiday. • 15 Nov 2007 (SABC) Today was declared a public holiday in Sierra Leone on the occasion of the inauguration of President Ernest Bai Koroma. Koroma, the leader of the All People's Congress (APC) and who was minority leader in parliament prior to becoming President in last September's elections. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Sierra Leone public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Independence Day: Was observed on April 19, rather than April 27, during the Presidency of Siaka Stevens which ended in 1985. • Sierra Leone International Codes SL and SLE (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .sl (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Sierra Leone information and news: Bank of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Sierra Leone maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Sierra Leone), and Wikipedia (includes Sierra Leone commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Sierra Leone, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Sierra Leone, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Sierra Leone. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Sierra Leone that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Sierra Leone were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Sierra Leone, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Sierra Leone, before planning any trip to Sierra Leone. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.