Ernest Bai Koroma

Correspondence on the recall of the United Nations chief Michael von der Schulenburg indicates an almost irrational hatred of him by President Ernest Bai Koroma (AC Vol 53 No 4 Early exit for UN envoy)...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon closed the door on a bitter dispute with the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma by recalling his Executive Representative for the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone Michael von der Schulenburg on 2 February...

The presidential and legislative elections due in November 2012 will be close-run pitting President Ernest Bai Koroma and the All Peoples’ Congress (APC) against Julius Maada Bio and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP)...

President Ernest Bai Koroma’s signing of the contracts with CIF which has a reputation for opacity and poor delivery in its African operations so close to the 17 November elections will inevitably raise questions about the motives for the secret deals...

Since President Ernest Bai Koroma was elected in 2007 the Embassy in China has been the scene of infighting between civil servants and appointees of the APC and the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party...

On taking office in 2007 President Ernest Bai Koroma vowed to run the country as a ‘business venture’...

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma also reportedly helped with campaign funding...

In September 2010 amidst boisterous celebrations attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma AML unveiled a 50-tonne railway locomotive it had shipped into the country which will be used to transport raw iron ore mined at the Tonkolili site...

was incidentally the exact amount the corruption-riddled 50th Anniversary Committee that President Ernest Bai Koroma had budgeted for the event...

This time he called on President Ernest Bai Koroma in Sierra Leone where officials agreed to expand cooperation in agriculture and fisheries...