Vol 48 No 24 |
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Two months after his election life for Sierra Leone's new President Ernest Bai Koroma has been full of pageantry and confusion...
Vol 48 No 21 |
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Incoming President Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) has appointed 20 ministers to his new cabinet...
Vol 48 No 19 |
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Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People’s Congress (APC) becomes President with 54...
Vol 48 No 18 |
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In the first round of the presidential poll on 11 August the APC's Ernest Bai Koroma took 44% of the vote against 38% for the SLPP's Solomon Berewa currently Vice-President...
Vol 48 No 17 |
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7% of votes counted the main opposition candidate Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) had taken 44%...
Vol 48 No 17 |
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Horse-trading aside front running presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma and the People's Movement for Democratic Change's (PMDC) Charles Margai say their alliance will produce an inclusive government offering ministerial jobs to Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) supporters as well as Margai's allies in the PMDC...
Vol 48 No 16 |
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The APC's young presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma is a Christian from the northern Temne group; he polled 22...
Ernest Koroma has picked his running mate Samuel Sam-Sumana from the east hoping to take what he can from the mining districts of Kono especially from electors of northern descent...
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There are accusations of assassination attempts against both main opposition leaders – Ernest Bai Koroma (in the southern capital Bo) and Charles Margai (in Kailahun near Liberia in the east)...
Vol 48 No 8 |
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Its presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma faces internal critics and infighting - and also needs a running mate...
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Kabbah is Mandingo from Kambia in the north which helped the SLPP in the 1996 and 2002 elections since the north is the base for Ernest Koroma's All People's Congress (APC)...
Ernest Koroma too is challenged within his own APC notably by its Secretary General Victor Foh a veteran colleague of the late President Siaka Stevens whom many regard as a liability for the party...