Bio, a former soldier who briefly led a military junta in 1996, is set to be sworn in as Sierra Leone’s new president shortly following the announcement. This was Bio’s second bid for the presidency, having lost in 2012. SLPP supporters jubilantSLPP voters already began celebrating in the streets of the capital, Freetown, on Wednesday evening, in anticipation of the election results. Everyone in, no one out,” the party’s campaign manager Ali Kabba told Bio supporters gathered at a Freetown hotel. Sierra Leone’s economy also remains particularly volatile following a slump in commodity prices in 2015, which coincided with an Ebola epidemic that killed some 4,000 people.

Source: Egypt Independent April 05, 2018 07:18 UTC