Sierra Leone Gears Up for Crucial Election

Saturday’s election is considered by some analysts as a very tight race between the two leading candidates — incumbent Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio and opposition leader Samura Kamara.

Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, is seeking reelection in Saturday’s crucial general polls — the fifth since the country’s brutal 10-year civil war that left 50,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, and ended in 2002.

Some 3.4 million eligible voters will choose a new…