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[ad_1] Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged over last year’s a failed coup attempt, the government has said. He is facing four offences including treason for his alleged role in the incident which occurred last November, a court in the capital Freetown said on Wednesday. Koroma’s charges, which also include misprision of treason and two counts of harbouring, were read out to him while he stood in the […]

[ad_1] Twelve persons have been charged over last year’s a failed coup in Sierra Leone, the government has said. The twelve have been charged with treason for the failed coup that took place on November 26, 2023. A member of the former President Ernest Bai Koroma’s security detail, Amadu Koita was among those charged. The government had maintained that the failed coup was led mostly by Koroma’s bodyguards. Koroma has […]