{"id":216985,"date":"2025-12-17T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-risks-another-disputed-election-without-urgent-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:50:26","slug":"sierra-leone-risks-another-disputed-election-without-urgent-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-risks-another-disputed-election-without-urgent-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Risks Another Disputed Election Without Urgent Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Political actors remain suspicious of the census process and divided over which electoral system to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Revising post-war Sierra Leone&#8217;s Constitution to strengthen democratic governance and guarantee sustainable peace and stability was a key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sierraleonetrc.org\/index.php\/view-report-text-vol-2\/item\/volume-two-chapter-three?category_id=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendation<\/a> of the country&#8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">More than 20 years later, the Constitution remains unchanged, impacting efforts to address governance gaps that contributed to the 2023 disputed presidential election and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512170211.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>Political actors remain suspicious of the census process and divided over which electoral system to use. Revising post-war Sierra Leone&#8217;s Constitution to strengthen democratic governance and guarantee sustainable peace and stability was a key recommendation of the country&#8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2004. More than 20 years later, the Constitution remains unchanged, impacting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580291:9fc66f4194207ef7870a8c0456ad6379:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,10422,3119,6572,257,7580,7349,6571,1135,254,11318],"class_list":["post-216985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disputed","tag-election","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-risks","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580291:9fc66f4194207ef7870a8c0456ad6379:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216985","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=216985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}