Sierra Leone’s main opposition party demands election re-run, alleging conspiracy to rig poll results following the victory of incumbent President Julius Maada Bio
While regional observers like the African Union and ECOWAS declared the elections in Sierra Leone as free and fair, other Western observers have stressed that the counting and tabulation process lacked transparency.
In a statement, the party also called for the resignation of electoral commission chairman Mohamed Konneh and his entire team among others. Bio, who already was sworn into his second term several days after the vote, tweeted for “all Sierra Leoneans to be peaceful and law-abiding.” Already the West African nation has seen demonstrators protest the state of the economy in recent months. Nearly 60 percent of Sierra Leone’s population of more than seven million are facing poverty, with youth unemployment being one of the highest in West Africa.
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