Tag Archives: Sierra Leone People’s Party

Sierra Leone: democracy without opposition

March 8, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Sankara Kamara At first glance, the West African state of Sierra Leone looks like an impressive exercise in democracy. Eleven years after extinguishing the flames of its civil war, Sierra Leone has conducted periodic elections, followed by the transfer of … read more »

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Sierra Leone awaits Election Results

November 17, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Voters crowded Freetown booths on Saturday as Sierra Leone chose a parliament and president. The polls are the third since the nation emerged from civil war in 2002 and shed the image of “blood diamonds.” UN envoy Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen … read more »

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Sierra Leone 2012 Presidential Election Live

November 16, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

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Sierra Leone Election: The test of the nation’s stability

November 16, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By economist POSTERS plaster Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. With an election on November 17th, candidates are vying for votes. President Ernest Bai Koroma is bidding for re-election with snappy slogans such as “When Music is Nice We Play … read more »

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Sierra Leone 2012 Election: A test democracy

November 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Fran Blandy Sierra Leoneans vote on Saturday in the country’s third election since the end of a brutal civil war, a high-stakes poll billed as a litmus test of the mineral-rich nation’s democratic credentials. The election will be the … read more »

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Sierra Leone: elections are a chance to ride the wave of economic development and democracy

November 13, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Peter Penfold On 17 November Sierra Leoneans will go to the polls in presidential, parliamentary and local elections. Over a decade ago, after years of turmoil and unrest, Sierra Leoneans were encouraged to embrace democracy as the means of … read more »

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Plot destabilize Sierra Leone Elections revealed

November 12, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Joseph Sherman,cocorioko. Maada Bio desperate for power Sinister motives by the SLPP to destabilize Sierra Leone during the November Elections in Sierra Leone have been uncovered.  Reports from reliable and credible sources intimates that Maada Bio and surrogates have … read more »

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Gunfire erupts in Sierra Leone’s Bo town

September 10, 2011 by benim

Gunfire broke out in Sierra Leone’s second biggest town, Bo, on Friday as supporters of rival political parties clashed in the streets, sources said. The fighting erupted after a leading opposition figure and presidential hopeful, Maada Bio, was struck on … read more »

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Ex-military leader to run as Sierra Leone president

August 1, 2011 by benim

Sierra Leone’s main opposition party on Monday named former coup leader Brigadier-General Julius Maada Bio, who handed power back to civilians in 1996, as its candidate for next year’s presidential vote. Bio, 47, will lead the ticket of the Sierra … read more »

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