2020 in Sierra Leone

Incumbents

• President: Julius Maada Bio

Events

• 31 March – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
• 23 December – After serving time in Rwanda for war crimes since 2009, former Revolutionary United Front leader Augustine Gbao, 72, is returned to Blama to serve the remainder of his 25-year sentence.

Deaths

• 5 March – Solomon Berewa, politician, Vice-President.
• 21 March – Eldred D. Jones, literary critic.
• 18 May – Minkailu Bah, politician.
• 18 July – Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita, long-distance runner.