Abdul Karim Koroma (born 25 September 1944) is a former

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierr ...

an politician. Koroma served in the Sierra Leonean government as Political minister, Minister of Education (1977–1982), Regional Minister of the Northern Province (1982–1985), and foreign minister (1985–1992). From 1998 to 2000, Koroma served on the President's National Policy Advisory Committee during the end of the

Sierra Leone Civil War The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Liberian dictator Char ...

. He has also been the High Commissioner to Australia.Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and High Commissioner to New Zealand, and Ambassador to The People's Republic of China, Republic of Vietnam, Japan, and was accredited to The Kingdom of Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka
Heads of Diplomatic Missions by Order of Precedence
, accessed 27 August 2009. Author of the following publications: (1) Sierra Leone The Agony of a Nation and (2) Crisis and Intervention in Sierra Leone 1996 to 2003. Andromeda Publications

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