Former Sierra Leone President Koroma returns after treason charges dropped

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Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma returned to Freetown on Sunday after the government dropped treason and related charges stemming from a 2023 army uprising. Koroma, who governed from 2007 to 2018, was accompanied by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nigerian Foreign Minister Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The justice ministry dismissed the case in July after Koroma had spent more than two years in Nigeria following an initial departure for medical treatment.

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Koroma’s return and the dropping of charges may signal a period of reduced political tension between the current government and the opposition All People’s Congress. His homecoming, facilitated by high-level diplomatic involvement, suggests a formal conclusion to the legal proceedings surrounding the 2023 coup allegations.

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