Yamandu is a town in the Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The population is predominantly from the Kono ethnic group. Population figures from past censuses are: 1963: 2,910 1985: 4,101 2004: under 3000.
There was an extensive diamond mining and trading operation in Yamandu in the 1950s and 1960s, which was carried on by Lebanese traders.
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