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Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio was sworn in Tuesday, shortly after electoral officials confirmed his victory in Saturday’s general elections amid protests from the opposition, CNN reported. The country’s election commission said Bio won more than 56 percent of the vote, while his rival Samura...

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Need to Know

June 22, 2023

Pushing For Normal

Sierra Leone

Samura Kamara, the leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) party and the main opposition candidate in Sierra Leone’s presidential election on June 24, recently called for every member of the small West African nation’s electoral commission to resign, so that international observers could perform...

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The World Briefly

January 24, 2023

Equality by Fiat

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone passed a law that would require public and private entities to allocate 30 percent of their jobs to women, a move aimed at tackling the gender imbalance in the West African nation, Radio France Internationale reported. The new Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act...

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The World Briefly

August 12, 2022

Nowhere to Go But Down

Sierra Leone

Hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown this week, in a deadly protest over rising inflation and mounting costs of living in one of Africa’s poorest countries, CNN reported. Anti-government demonstrators had taken to the streets to lament the country’s...

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