Ernest Bai Koroma

Frustrated by promised dates for restarting production being pushed back President Ernest Bai Koroma is putting pressure on SISG and the AML founder and former Chairman Vasile Frank Timis who now owns the Marampa iron-ore mine to commit to a firm timetable...

President Ernest Bai Koroma's government informed the International Monetary Fund it had abandoned his flagship project the Mamamah international airport during its team visit in September Africa Confidential has learned...

payment to a Cypriot trading company allegedly owned by Timis himself; and questions raised by the local press about founder Timis's close relationship with President Ernest Bai Koroma (AC Vol 54 No 6 Groans about growth)...

In a decision mourned in Freetown's legal and political circles alike the Supreme Court has ruled that President Ernest Bai Koroma did indeed have the power to sack his deputy Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana and appoint a successor last March (AC Vol 56 No 6 Koroma lashes out)...

President Ernest Bai Koroma feared he was building support for a bid to succeed him as President political sources in Freetown have told Africa Confidential...

President Ernest Bai Koroma's pride has not helped either...

President Ernest Bai Koroma has removed Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana from office even though he does not apparently have the powers to do so...

President Ernest Bai Koroma has called off the national housing and population census planned for April after criticism that members of his All Peoples' Congress (APC) were over-represented in its management...

The higher than usual recovery rates were trumpeted by President Ernest Bai Koroma's government even though the Health Ministry has been accused in the past of under-reporting Ebola cases while the high death and infection rates gave no cause for celebration...

On 12 December President Ernest Bai Koroma issued an edict banning all Christmas celebrations especially the street festivals and masquerades for which Freetown is famous...