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Sierra Leone’s opposition parties in a battle of words in the Associated Press
A war of words has ignited another round of accusations and threats from Sierra Leone’s leading political parties. This new bout began when opposition leader Maada Bio accused the ruling APC party ...Sierra Leone $60 million voter registration off to a false start
Photo (C) National Electoral Commission Sierra Leone’s three month Biometric voter registration process for the November 2012 elections has gotten off to a false start. The 60 million dollar project is a joint ...Ndour banned and 2 killed in Senegal anti Wade election protests
Armed forces in Pudor, Senegal have killed 2 people and wounded five today as citizens protested 85 year old President Abdoulaye Wade’s re-election bid. The protests began after Senegal’s Constitutional court announced that ...Sierra Leone’s top 5 revolutionary election songs
In 10 months Sierra Leoneans will head to the polls to exercise their right to vote. Some believe that this is the most contentious election in the nation’s history. In the ...In 2007 he said no to politics today Youssou N’dour is running for president
Celebrated Senegalese singer and arguably the King of mbalax Youssou N’Dour has announced that he will run as as an opposition candidate in Senegal’s presidential elections to be held next month. “I have ...Liberia Elections Update: Prince Johnson for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Former warlord Prince Johnson. (c) Glenna GordonTamasin Ford filed this story for the Guardian. A former warlord has announced that he will support Nobel peace prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia‘s run-off ...Is Maada Bio Sierra Leone’s Next President?
Maada Bio embraces RUF leader Foday Sankoh in the mid 90s Mr Maada Bio today…Is this our next president? Sierra Leone’s leading opposition party the SLLP at a convention over the weekend ...Will 2012 elections be democratic?
a local paper suggests political parties need to compromise if Sierra Leone’s 2012 elections are to be democraticEXTRA EXTRA……Sierra Leone Election Update Part 2
If you don’t know by now let me be the first to say that THERE WILL BE A RUN OFF….No political party will be able to get 55% of the votes in ...EXTRA EXTRA…..Sierra Leone Election Update Part 1
Pre-Elections Last Week, the first ever presidential debates were held in Freetown at Lagoonda Entertainment Complex and this young wannabe scored tickets curtesy of a friend with the BBC. All parties were ...