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...

The main beneficiaries of the failed coup against President Julius Maada Bio's government in the early hours of 26 November seem to be the 1 890 inmates sprung from the Pademba prison in central Freetown...

The unusual part-lobbying part-security pact between recently re-elected President Julius Maada Bio and former Green Beret and United States defence consultant Jerry Torres continues to take shape (AC Vol 64 No 18 President Bio taps Trump ally as security worries grow)...

United States defence consultant Jerry Torres has struck an agreement with Julius Maada Bio that he says will make him National Security Advisor to the newly re-elected President of Sierra Leone and a lobbyist for the government...

As Julius Maada Bio reshapes his government in the wake of the disputed results of the 24 June election giving him a second term his new team is dealing with the fall-out: both the deepening confrontation with the opposition All People's Congress (APC) which refuses to recognise Bio's legitimacy and those western countries calling for an independent assessment of the voting...