The 96th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers opened in Freetown, Sierra Leone, yesterday, with ministers from across the region deliberating on key political, security and economic issues ahead of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government Summit. The two-day meeting, which...
•Deportees from US Sierra Leone yesterday became the latest African country to receive migrants expelled from the United States under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. A first plane carrying nine West African migrants landed yesterday morning at the international airport just outside Freetown, reports AFP. “We have received nine ...
•Sierra Leone President, Julius Maada Bio Sierra Leone’s minister of energy resigned yesterday, according to the president’s office, against a backdrop of recent interruptions to the country’s electricity supply. The reasons for Alhadji Kanja Sesay’s resignation were not officially explained, and the energy ministry did not respond to a reques...
•Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged for his alleged role in what authorities call an attempted coup, left the country and arrived in Nigeria yesterday. Koroma landed in Abuja yesterday afternoon, welcomed by National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu and the president of the ECOWAS Commission O...
•Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bal Koroma The Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) has concluded plans to relocate former Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bal Koroma to Nigeria tomorrow Thursday, January 4, 2024, reports Nigerian Tribune. This is part of the agreement reached by the mission to Freetown on December 23, 2023 of...
•Folorunsho Alakija Nigerian billionaire, Folorunsho Alakija’s oil company has secured six oil blocks from the Sierra Leonean government. Notice of the signed agreement between Alakija’s oil company and the government of Sierra Leone was made public in a public statement signed by Dr Julius F Sandy, the Secretary to Sierra Leonan President, re...
•Bai Koroma Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma reported to police in Freetown today to be questioned over what the government has called an attempted coup at the end of November. Koroma, who led the West African nation for 11 years until 2018, arrived at around 10:00 am local time (1000 GMT) at the […]
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