Koindu

Koindu Koindu, Kailahun District
Location in Sierra Leone
Coordinates: 8°27′43″N 10°20′18″W / 8.46194°N 10.33833°WCoordinates: 8°27′43″N 10°20′18″W / 8.46194°N 10.33833°W
Country	Sierra Leone
Province	Eastern Province
District	Kailahun District
Chiefdom	Kissi Teng
Time zone	GMT (UTC-5)

Koindu^[1] is a town in Kailahun District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Koindu is a major diamond mining town^[2] and market center.^[3] The population of Koindu is estimated at 16,751. Koindu lies approximately 63 miles from Kenema and about 230 miles south-east of Freetown.

The population of Koindu is largely from the Kissi ethnic group.^[4]

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Notable people

• Sahr Senesie, German football star

Notes

1. Koindu (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
2. Hynes, Bridget. Children of the Borderlands: Young Soldiers in the Reproduction of Warfare. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Proquest. p. 179. dissertation at Conflict Resolution Institute, University of Denver.
3. Trillo. Richard (2008). The Rough Guide to West Africa. London: Penguin. pp. 554–555. ISBN 978-1-4053-8070-6.
4. Bah, M. Alpha (1998). Fulbe presence in Sierra Leone: a case history of twentieth-century migration and settlement among the Kissi of Koindu. New York: P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-2180-3.