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Sierra Leone to hold presidential run-off on March 27

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The people of Sierra Leone will go to the polls again on March 27 to elect a new president in a run-off vote.

The country’s election commission on Tuesday said there was the need for a run-off since none of the candidates obtained the needed number of votes required to be declared president.

The country’s main opposition however finished slightly ahead of the ruling party in the first round of voting.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio, from the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), obtained 43.3% of votes in last week’s polls, while Samura Kamara of the incumbent All Peoples Congress (APC) took 42.7%.

Third party candidate Kandeh Yumkella finished with just 6.9% of votes.

Current President Ernest Bai Koroma is stepping down after his maximum two terms in office and March 7 vote to replace him was largely peaceful.

Sierra Leone witnesses a brutal, diamond-fuelled civil war in the 1990s and the next president faces a huge task of trying to fix the West African country’s economy, still recovering from the war and recent Ebola epidemic.

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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