Mano River

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The Mano River is a river in west Africa, it originates in the Guinea Highlands in Liberia and forms the Liberia-Sierra Leone border.

The districts through which the river flows include the Parrot's Beak area of Guinea, Liberia's Lofa County and the Kono and Kailahun District of Sierra Leone. Diamond mining is a major industry in these areas. The wealth that control over the area and the instability of the national governments of all three countries led to a series of violent conflicts involving these districts in the 1990's (See Sierra Leone Civil War and Liberian Civil War).

The three countries formed the Mano River Union in 1973 (reactivated in 2004) as a customs and economic union.