Ruler · 1960 – 2003

Johnny Paul Koroma

Lived 1960 – 2003; politician, military personnel. President of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), 1997 – 1998.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1960 – 2003; 43 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Sierra Leone
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

President of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone · the 5th of 8 dated reigns · 1971 – 2018

1 before

Joseph Saidu Momoh1985 – 1992

Valentine Strasser1992 – 1996

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah1996 – 1997

Johnny Paul Koroma1997 – 1998

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah1998 – 2007

Ernest Bai Koroma2007 – 2018

Julius Maada Bio2018 – …

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1997 – 1998 · 1 year · came to it aged 37

Came to it: appointed
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

After the coup in 1997, Koroma was named head of state and chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).

Koroma reportedly fled into exile in Liberia where he was murdered later that year.

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