Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was a Sierra Leonean politician who served twice as the 3rd President of Sierra Leone,from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007. An economist and attorney by profession,Kabbah spent many years working for the United Nations Development Programme. He retired from the United Nations and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992.
The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone,along with its main political rival the All People's Congress (APC). It has been the ruling party in Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. The SLPP dominated Sierra Leone's politics from its foundation in 1951 to 1967,when it lost the 1967 parliamentary election to the APC,led by Siaka Stevens. Originally a centre-right,conservative party,it identifies since 2012 as a centre-left social democratic party,with a centrist tendency.
The All People's Congress (APC) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone,the other being its main political rival the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). The APC has been the main opposition party in Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018 when Julius Maada Bio of the SLPP won the 2018 presidential elections,though it maintains a majority in parliament.
Julius Maada Wonie Bio is a Sierra Leonean politician,and the current president of Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. He is a retired brigadier in the Sierra Leone Army and was the military head of state of Sierra Leone from 16 January 1996 to 29 March 1996,in a military junta government known as the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC).
The People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) is a liberal party in Sierra Leone. It is a breakaway faction of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). It was officially registered on 19 January 2006. The party is led by Charles Margai,the son of Sierra Leone's second prime minister Sir Albert Margai and the nephew of Sir Milton Margai. The PMDC is based in the country's second largest city of Bo.
Solomon Ekuma Dominic Berewa was Vice-President of Sierra Leone from May 2002 to September 2007. Standing as the candidate of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP),he was defeated in the second round of the 2007 presidential election by Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC).
Alhaji Amadu Jalloh is a politician in Sierra Leone. He contested the 1996 presidential election as a member of the National Democratic Alliance,where he finished in 8th place with 2.3% of the first round voting. He ran again as the NDA candidate in the August 2007 presidential election,receiving 0.96% of the vote and fifth place.
Ernest Bai Koroma is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018.
Kono District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Koidu Town. Motema is the second most populous city in the district. The other major towns in the district include Yengema,Tombodu,Jaiama Nimikor and Sewafe. The district is the largest diamond producer in Sierra Leone. The population of Kono District is 505,767. Kono District borders Kenema District to the southwest,The Republic of Guinea to the east,Koinadugu District to the northeast and Kailahun District to the southeast. Kono District is divided into fourteen chiefdoms.
General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 11 August 2007. Seven candidates competed in the first round of the presidential election;no candidate received the necessary 55% of the vote to win in the first round,and a second round was held between the top two candidates,Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) and Solomon Berewa of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP),on 8 September. According to official results,Koroma won the election with 54.6% of the vote.
Momodu Koroma is a Sierra Leonean politician. He is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP). He became foreign minister in May 2002,as part of a new cabinet appointed following President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's re-election earlier in the month. Koroma had previously been Minister of Presidential Affairs. Koroma was born in the small town of Yonibana in the Tonkolili District,his father was from the Temne ethnic group,while his mother came from the Mende ethnic group. It is very rare in Sierra Leone to see inter-ethnic marriages between Sierra Leone's two largest ethnic group the Temne and Mende.
Joseph Bandabla Dauda widely known as J. B. Dauda,was a Sierra Leonean politician. He was Second Vice-President of Sierra Leone,Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from November 1991 to April 1992. Later he was Minister of Finance in 2002,Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2012,and Minister of Internal Affairs from 2013 to 2016.
The following list is of events that happened during 2007 in Sierra Leone.
General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 17 November 2012. The result was a sweeping victory for the ruling All People's Congress. Its leader,incumbent president Ernest Bai Koroma,won 58.7% of the vote,enough to win a second term without the need for a runoff. The APC also won 67 of the 112 elected seats in Parliament. To date,it is the APC's best showing at an election since the restoration of multiparty politics in 1991.
Dr Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara is a Sierra Leonean politician and economist. He was the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party's candidate for President of Sierra Leone in the 2018 election. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Sierra Leone from 2012 to 2017,Minister of Finance and Economic Development from 2009 to 2013,Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2009,Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance during President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's administration.
Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean politician,businessman and mining engineer who has been Minister of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone since 2013. He previously worked as director of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC).
Alice Rosalyn Koroma was the mother of Sierra Leone's president,Ernest Bai Koroma,and a longtime primary school teacher in Makeni. She was a longtime member of the Wesleyan Church congregation in Makeni,and in the 1960s she was a member of the Makeni city council from the All People's Congress (APC) party. Koroma,whose political career stems back to the 1960s,"was a strong supporter" and "advocate of women's rights". She was very active in the political scene of Sierra Leone and was a former leader of the All People's Congress (APC) Women's Congress in Bombali District in the later half of the 1960s.
Alhaji Moijueh Emmanuel Kaikai is a Sierra Leonean politician and the Sierra Leone Minister of Social Welfare,Gender and Children's Affairs since 2013. He had previously served as the resident Minister of the Southern Province,and Deputy Minister of Labour.
General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 7 March 2018 to elect the President,Parliament and local councils. Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma did not run for another term,as he was constitutionally ineligible,having served the maximum ten years in office.
Apha Saidu Bangura is a Sierra Leonean social media political commentator and political analyst who is currently a member of the communication unit at the Sierra Leone Ministry of Information and Communication. He regularly releases audio on WhatsApp and videos on YouTube about the latest major Sierra Leonean political news and other major incidents in Sierra Leone. Alpha Saidu is well known in the Sierra Leonean community in the United States and the Sierra Leonean community in Europe. Alpha Saidu is also well known across Sierra Leone.
