Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma's release for 'medical treatment' in Nigeria and the backroom deal that brought it about has enraged many of President Julius Maada Bio's supporters...

Amadu Koita one alleged ringleader is a former soldier and former bodyguard of ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma's...

Ex-president's tortuous route to banishment Comfortably housed in a Nigerian government mansion in Abuja ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma is cooling his heels until his reappearance – which few expect to take place – in a Freetown court to face treason charges...

Political tensions are mounting in Freetown after the secret plan to allow Sierra Leone's former President Ernest Bai Koroma to go into exile in Nigeria and drop the treason charges against him was scuppered by Foreign Minister Timothy Kabba and senior figures in the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) sources in Freetown have told Africa Confidential...

And no one can explain why during the early stages of the coup attempt armed men broke into the house of former President Ernest Bai Koroma and killed his security guard Corporal Eddie Conteh...

Born in the eastern diamond-rich Kono district he has deep roots in Port Loko District in the north a stronghold of the main opposition All People's Congress (APC) of ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma...

The charges of impunity favouritism corruption and subverting the constitution that President Julius Maada Bio now faces uncomfortably resemble those he flung at his predecessor President Ernest Bai Koroma during his presidency...

Yet the two met at Banda's home on 16 August after Lungu's concession speech the encounter reportedly brokered by the head of the Commonwealth observer mission Tanzania's ex-President Jakaya Kikwete and the head of the African Union observer mission Sierra Leone's ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma...

In what government supporters see as a watershed moment and critics say is a precursor to civil unrest formal corruption investigations have opened against former President Ernest Bai Koroma...

Critics say he has done little to reunite the country fractured along regional and ethnic lines that he took over from his predecessor Ernest Bai Koroma...