KAILAHUN, Sierra Leone, May 14 (UNHCR) - As people all over Sierra Leone go to the polls today, many of the country's refugees have already voted - with their feet - for the future of their homeland. ...

The presidential candidate of Sierra Leone’s ruling party holds a slim lead over the opposition leader based on certified tallies seen by Reuters from nine of the 16 voting districts, though many ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Sierra Leone held its first elections Saturday since U.N. peacekeepers left nearly two years ago, a vote that will test whether the diamond-rich West African country can ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - A framed photograph from Sierra Leone's civil war hangs in an office in the ramshackle capital Freetown, showing former rebel leader Maada Bio in military dress. Below the picture ...

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Sierra Leone's electoral body has announced that the presidential run-off will be delayed until Saturday, after losing days of preparation due to a court order. The High Court had earlier lifted an ...

(AP) A decade after Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Sierra Leone held its first presidential elections Saturday since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago, a historic poll that many hope will show this country can transfer ...