Sierra Leone votes for new president


Voting is under way in Sierra Leone, wherein more than three million humans are eligible to select a new president, parliament and Councillors.

In the capital, Freetown, lengthy queues might be visible at polling stations even earlier than sunrise.
President Ernest Bai Koroma is stepping down after serving two 5-year terms. His selected successor, Samura Kamara, is being challenged with the aid of 15 different applicants – lots of them promising to tackle endemic corruption and poverty.
Mr Kamara of the all peoples congress (apc) is one in every of 3 frontrunners – the others being Julius Maada Woni of Sierra Leone human being’s birthday party (slpp) and Kandeh Yumkella of country wide grand coalition (ngc).
one of the best demanding situations for the brand new leader can be to reconstruct a healthcare gadget following the large ebola outbreak in 2014 that killed almost four,000 humans.
The commonwealth’s leader election observer, former Ghanaian president john Mahama, informed the BBC there have been signs and symptoms it’d be peaceful:
“Humans are going approximately their commercial enterprise. They do not have that tension or worry that there is going to be any explosion taking place”.
He brought that if “all of us plays their component” they’ll be one step closer to “consolidating democracy in Sierra Leone”.
Mr Mahama stated that candidates had signed a peace pledge inside the run-as much as the election.

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