Tag Archives: Julius Maada Bio

Security forces in Sierra Leone have surrounded the headquarters of the All People’s Congress (APC), the main opposition party, as votes are being counted for presidential elections, local media reported. According to APC leader Samura Kamara, live ammunition was fired into the building while he was holding a press conference. …

The President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio has sacked the Minister of Justice Anthony Yeiwoh Brewah, also Attorney General and replaced by Mohamed Lamin Tarawalley. The reasons of his sacking were not mentionned. Mr Brewah sat on a committee that made recommendations to the president for the pardoning of …

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has declared three days of national mourning after a fuel tanker explosion on Friday killed more than 100 people. Mr Maada Bio said the country must learn from the incident, adding that those injured would be given free treatment. A task force is set …

Following the enactment of a law by President Julius Maada Bio prohibiting the death penalty which was accepted by lawmakers in July, Sierra Leone officially abolished the death penalty. “As a nation, we have today exorcised horrors of a cruel past,” the president said in a statement quoted by AFP …