Brigadier (retired) Julius Maada Wonie Bio

One faction sees a charismatic and outgoing complement to her husband President Julius Maada Bio's low-key manner; others say she has too much power and can command her husband to hire and fire whom she likes...

Wuyata Bernadette Songa became head of the 'JMB [Julius Maada Bio] Women' which for most of the last six years overshadowed the SLPP Women's Wing...

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...

Bio's handlers make a drama out of a medical crisis The everyday tensions between Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce's Audit Service of Sierra Leone (ASSL) and the government turned to open war when she began to probe President Julius Maada Bio's visit to Lebanon on 27 August 2020 insiders told Africa Confidential...

President Julius Maada Bio follows Morocco's lead on the contested territory while Kabba who had served under Bio as Foreign Minister for a year until moving to New York is believed to sympathise with the Polisario Front...

Koroma's APC has denounced the investigation as politically motivated and unjust but President Julius Maada Bio is staking his reputation on seeing through a key election campaign promise he made in 2018...

Promoting national reconciliation after two decades of civil strife is proving harder than the cheerleaders of President Julius Maada Bio had claimed...

* 'Uniting Bo and Makeni' from the Institute for Governance Reform Freetown 2020 Winning plaudits on education and anti-corruption Despite the toxic politics President Julius Maada Bio's government has pushed through some important if incremental changes...

Mohamed Konneh was appointed by President Julius Maada Bio who decided against reappointing N'fa Allie Conteh who presided over the 2018 polls that brought the president into office (AC Vol 59 No 9 Narrow win constrains Bio)...

President Julius Maada Bio put firms operating in the countrys mining sector on notice when he outlined a reform programme at the annual Mining Indaba in Cape Town earlier this month...

President Julius Maada Bio's earlier doubts about the advisability of incurring a US$1...

In neighbouring Sierra Leone the President Julius Maada Bio's government obliged Ngegba to return $665 000 in port fees collected under a similar scheme (AC Vol 60 No 7 A storm in a port)...

Although President Julius Maada Bio was an enthusiast for Chinese investment in infrastructure at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation last September the government has cooled on some major projects the latest of which is a plan to expand Freetown port...