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When Spain's Guardia Civil intercepted a cargo vessel off the Western Sahara coast carrying over 30 tonnes of cocaine on 1 May – the biggest such interdiction in history – it escalated the rumbling confrontation between the European Union and President Julius Maada Bio's government in Sierra Leone...

Presiding at the summit will be the retired Brigadier and ex-military leader Julius Maada Bio still celebrated for handing over to a civilian successor 30 years ago...

The ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and the opposition All People's Congress (APC) are at loggerheads over President Julius Maada Bio's choice of Edmond Sylvester Alpha as Chairman of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL)...

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...