{"id":204538,"date":"2025-08-12T22:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-large-majorities-of-sierra-leoneans-favour-cross-party-collaboration-over-divisive-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:01:53","slug":"sierra-leone-large-majorities-of-sierra-leoneans-favour-cross-party-collaboration-over-divisive-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-large-majorities-of-sierra-leoneans-favour-cross-party-collaboration-over-divisive-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Large Majorities of Sierra Leoneans Favour Cross-Party Collaboration Over Divisive Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Most citizens say governments should be required to promote regional and ethnic balance in making political appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overwhelming majorities of Sierra Leoneans express tolerant attitudes toward people of different religions (93%), ethnicities (93%), political affiliations (87%), and nationalities (92%) as well as toward refugees (79%). However, tolerance for differences in sexual orientation is low (8%).<\/li>\n<li>The share of Sierra Leoneans who say the government &#8220;never&#8221; treats their&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508120326.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most citizens say governments should be required to promote regional and ethnic balance in making political appointments. Key findings Overwhelming majorities of Sierra Leoneans express tolerant attitudes toward people of different religions (93%), ethnicities (93%), political affiliations (87%), and nationalities (92%) as well as toward refugees (79%). However, tolerance for differences in sexual orientation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7289,52088,8712,24897,10942,6572,13140,52087,257,6916,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-204538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collaboration","tag-crossparty","tag-divisive","tag-favour","tag-large","tag-leone","tag-leoneans","tag-majorities","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}