{"id":55,"date":"2018-03-07T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:14:11","slug":"sierra-leone-votes-for-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone votes for new president"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
Voting is under way in Sierra Leone, wherein more than three million humans are eligible to select a new president, parliament and Councillors.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

In the capital, Freetown, lengthy queues might be visible at polling stations even earlier than sunrise.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
President Ernest Bai Koroma is stepping down after serving two 5-year terms. <\/span>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.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2019s birthday party (slpp) and Kandeh Yumkella of country wide grand coalition (ngc).<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
The commonwealth’s leader election observer, former Ghanaian president john Mahama, informed the BBC there have been signs and symptoms it’d be peaceful:<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
“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”.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
He brought that if “all of us plays their component” they’ll be one step closer to “consolidating democracy in Sierra Leone”.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Mr Mahama stated that candidates had signed a peace pledge inside the run-as much as the election.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}