When Secretary-General Habib Diallo was killed in a car crash in 2011,[5] his successor was the first woman to hold that office: Dr Saran Daraba Kaba.[6] The Mano River Union Secretariat is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone,[4] with offices in Conakry, Guinea and Monrovia, Liberia.[4] In April 2016 the Union announced plans to form a Mano River Union Parliament, where legislators from the four member states will work to coordinate national legislation on matters of regional importance.[7]