Two weeks after the failed putsch Samura Kamara the presidential candidate of the All People's Congress party was ordered to be arrested on graft charges...

Since then the main opposition party the All People's Congress (APC) has been boycotting parliament and its presidential candidate Samura Kamara rejected election results declaring Maada-Bio to have won another term...

The northern town is a fortress for the APC of which Koroma is still chairman and leader nearly three years after it chose Samura Kamara as its presidential candidate in the 2018 presidential polls (AC Vol 59 No 13 Koroma accused of grand corruption)...

Samura Kamara who the report says overruled civil service objections to the sale of the Sierra Rutile shares in his capacity as Minister of Finance became the party's presidential candidate in October 2017...

His triumph over Samura Kamara candidate for Koroma's All People's Congress (APC) shows that the political turf is almost evenly divided between the two main parties...

Few surprises were produced by Sierra Leone's presidential elections on 7 March which saw the ruling All People's Congress presidential candidate Samura Kamara head to a runoff on 27 March against Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party...

How inclined Sierra Leone's new President – to be announced after next week's runoff between Samura Kamara of the governing All People's Congress and Sierra Leone People's Party candidate Julius Maada Bio – will be to facilitate Timis's investments in the country remains to be seen...

Nonetheless the dour Samura Kamara selected by Koroma as the man to succeed him seems to be holding his own against the others in the race for the presidency (AC Vol 58 No 22 One man one vote)...