2020 in Sierra Leone

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See also:	Other events of 2020 Timeline of Sierra Leonean history

Events in the year 2020 in Sierra Leone .

Incumbents

• President: Julius Maada Bio

Events

• 31 March – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
• 23 December – After serving time in Rwanda for war crimes since 2009, former Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Augustine Gbao, 72, is returned to Blama to serve the remainder of his 25-year sentence. ^[1]

Deaths

• 5 March – Solomon Berewa, politician, Vice-President (b. 1938). ^[2]
• 21 March – Eldred D. Jones, literary critic (b. 1925). ^[3]
• 18 May – Minkailu Bah, politician. ^[4]
• 18 July – Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita, long-distance runner (b. 1947). ^[5]

See also

• COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone
• 2020 in West Africa

References

1. "Sierra Leone ex-warlord on conditional release after jail in Rwanda". Modern Ghana. 2020-12-24. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
2. Sierra Leone’s former Vice President Solomon Berewa has died
3. Professor Eldred Jones passes away
4. Sierra Leone’s former minister of education Minkailu Bah has died
5. Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita