President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma today, Wednesday 5th July 2017, inaugurated the newly constructed Sierra Leone Embassy Complex in Addis Ababa, Federal Republic of Ethiopia on the margins of the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union.In his remarks shortly before unveiling the plaque, President Koroma stated that the project was part of his strategy of rebuilding Sierra Leone’s Foreign service asset portfolio, saying that his government has increased the national asset overseas since he assumed office in 2007.
The president went on to outline the achievements of his administration in the infrastructural drive and modernization of Sierra Leone’s missions around the world; namely, rebuilding the Chancery and residences in Liberia; construction of a Chancery complex in Ghana; refurbishment of the residences and construction of a Chancery in Nigeria; refurbishment of the Chancery building of the Sierra Leone Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York; relocation of the Embassy in Germany from Bonn to Berlin; the refurbishment of the Chancery and residences in Washington DC as well as the acquisition of land on a reciprocal basis for the construction of Chanceries and residences in the Republic of Guinea, The Gambia and the Arab Republic of Egypt respectively.