The unusual part-lobbying part-security pact between recently re-elected President Julius Maada Bio and former Green Beret and United States defence consultant Jerry Torres continues to take shape (AC Vol 64 No 18 President Bio taps Trump ally as security worries grow)...

United States defence consultant Jerry Torres has struck an agreement with Julius Maada Bio that he says will make him National Security Advisor to the newly re-elected President of Sierra Leone and a lobbyist for the government...

As Julius Maada Bio reshapes his government in the wake of the disputed results of the 24 June election giving him a second term his new team is dealing with the fall-out: both the deepening confrontation with the opposition All People's Congress (APC) which refuses to recognise Bio's legitimacy and those western countries calling for an independent assessment of the voting...

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...