Sewafe is a diamond-mining town in Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.

The town is 30 miles west of Koidu Town (the largest city in Kono District) and about 220 miles east of Freetown, on the highway linking Koidu Town to Kenema.

[1] The town has a government hospital and two police stations run by the Sierra Leone Police Force.

The population of Sewafe is almost entirely part of the Kono ethnic group.

Like in all parts of Sierra Leone, primary education in the town is free and compulsory.