Julius Maada Wonie Bio

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...

When Sierra Leone's parliament returns from recess on 31 October one of the first orders of business will be to ratify President Julius Maada Bio's endorsement of the removal of the respected Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce...

Tribunal report buries audit service in a shallow grave When President Julius Maada Bio clashed with Lara Taylor-Pearce three years ago over the finances of his emergency medical trip to Beirut the then Chief Minister JJ Saffa and then Chief Justice Babatunde Edwards convinced him that a legal case against the awkward Auditor-General could be made according to sources in Freetown...

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...

His presence is a strong embarrassment to President Bola Tinubu as much as his absence is to President Julius Maada Bio...

Opposing the plan for Koroma's exile on 2 January the SLPP officials leaked a letter from Omar Alieu Touray the President of the Economic Commission for West Africa (Ecowas) detailing the relocation arrangements which had been kept confidential by Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio and regional leaders including Senegal's Macky Sall Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo...