Julius Maada Wonie Bio

That is highly relevant for President Julius Maada Bio whose standing was badly hit by the cocaine scandal last year (AC Vol 66 No 3 President Bio keeps cocaine lord in the family Vol 66 No 4 Freetown falls out with the Hague over cocaine & Vol 66 No 7 The Hague doubts that Bio's government will arrest cocaine kingpin)...

That is highly relevant for President Julius Maada Bio whose standing was badly hit by the cocaine scandal last year (AC Vol 66 No 3 President Bio keeps cocaine lord in the family Vol 66 No 4 Freetown falls out with the Hague over cocaine & Vol 66 No 7 The Hague doubts that Bio's government will arrest cocaine kingpin)...

President Macron was like Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara Ecowas chair Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and Tinubu in direct touch with Talon during the day...

The coup was immediately condemned by the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) which sent a delegation headed by President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone to Bissau to negotiate a return to the constitutional order...

The June 2025 selection of Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio as Ecowas chair – after Togolese efforts to block his reformist Senegalese counterpart Bassirou Diomaye Faye – was seen as a setback for the bloc's democratic agenda...

After an ugly fight with President Julius Maada Bio's government over working conditions and back pay Chief Executive of Koidu Limited Dag Cramer is closing the country's richest diamond mine with a loss of over a thousand jobs and about US$80-100 million a year in export revenues...

President Julius Maada Bio's wife Fatima Maada Bio has bought a string of luxury properties in the Gambia worth over US$2 million since 2020 according to an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project on 10 May...

Less than two years into his second – and final – five-year presidential term Julius Maada Bio is mulling both his legacy and a succession plan for 2028...

Kanneh was sacked after video emerged of him receiving a birthday gift from the drugs smuggler but Agnes Bio a daughter of President Julius Maada Bio and the convicted smuggler's partner remains fully accredited to the Sierra Leone Permanent Mission to the UN in New York officials confirmed to Africa Confidential...

After Reuters news agency reported on 24 January that Leijdekkers had been identified in a video at a church service on 1 January sitting two rows behind President Julius Maada Bio and his wife the authorities initially claimed ignorance about the Dutchman...