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The newly elected ECOWAS Chair, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, is among several African leaders exempted from attending a White House meeting with President Donald Trump later this July.
Bio, who was elected Chair of ECOWAS in June, 2025, was snubbed by the US President who is planning to invite leaders from five African countries in a high-profile White House meeting. Leaders from Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Senegal, and Gabon are expected to grace the invite later this month.
Some political analysts have suggested that Bio’s snubbing is as a result of his poor style of leadership since winning the 2018 elections in Sierra Leone.
Bio was re-elected for a second term in 2023 in an election the EU and the Carter Centre said was marred with fraud and malpractice. The EU, in particular, said the results lacked statistical consistencies.
In a similar vein, the leader of the main opposition party All People’s Congress (APC), Samura Kamara refused to accept the result urging the election body, the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) to publish the full results of the 2023 multi-tier election.
Samura’s protest was echoed in Parliament prompting elected representatives in the House to boycott governance in solidarity.
Recently, the government and the APC are committed to peace -thanks to the US, UK and the EU among others who set up a Committee to look into the ills of the 2023 elections. Named the Tripartite Committee, key members from both parties agree to work on 169 recommendations in June 2024. However, the Committee decided to focus on 80 key recommendations which include transparency, strong electoral systems, and institutional and legislative reforms.
As the recommendations are currently being implemented, some key figures within the main opposition are still crying for electoral justice highlighting the existing divide between the government and the opposition.
Utterly rubbished peice put here , so if Trump didn’t invite President Bio what does it really means to us as citizens of this country? At the end of the day Africa needs to stand and make decisions on it own and ignored being spoon fed by the west.
What is our achievement too in his appointment as a chairman of Ecowas
The achievement in appointing President Bio as a ecowas chairman is that people have started to recognize our country
Hey mumu, do you think the appointment of ecowas chairman is based on achievement? How would define achievement anyway? Are u serious?
At least president Bio must be included in this invitation, simply because he is the leader of West African Countries let us be realistic in this particular matter,also president Bio must correct many issues like good governance, allow a level playing ground of democracy, particularly in his country because as a leader you lead by example. In the area of the west 75 % of finances we use in African are from the west. I stand to be corrected 🙏🙏👍
It means a lot my dear coz if he was invited you should have being the first person to be shouting all over the place. Now let me tell you what we are missing here ; my president is the head of the ECOWAS commission and it means discussing anything positive about Africa with a president you guys called the most powerful in the world we will be glad if our president is present. Thank you
Donald Trump meeting was not for high ranking president like president Mandate Bio