Sierra Leone ex-president Koroma returns after treason case dropped

Former Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma returned to his home country Sunday, where authorities welcomed him after treason charges against him over an alleged coup attempt were dropped.

Koroma had left for Nigeria in 2024, days after being charged with treason and other offences over a deadly 2023 army uprising.

The ex-president, who led Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2018, arrived at the international airport in the capital, Freetown,…