Koindu

Koindu^[1] is a town in Kailahun District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Koindu should not be confused with Koidu, which is a major diamond mining town in Kono District^[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 east of Freetown.

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

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

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Notable people

• Sahr Senesie, German football star
• Dr. Paul T. Yillia, research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

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. 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.