Youth and Education
Koroma grew up in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. However, he was born in Tombodu, Kono District, in eastern Sierra Leone to Limba parents. He is from the same ethnic group as former Presidents Siaka Stevens and Joseph Saidu Momoh. He joined the Sierra Leonean army in 1985, and went to Sandhurst Military Academy in England to train as an officer in 1988. He returned to Sierra Leone the next year and was promoted to Section Commander, and soon thereafter to Company Commander. He continued to move up the ladder, and in 1994 he went to the Teshi Military College in Ghana to train in the subjects of Army Command and General Staff.
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