Voting is below means in Sierra Leone’s tightly contested presidential and parliamentary elections amid a cost-of-living disaster.
Polling stations opened later than the scheduled time of 7am within the capital, Freetown, AFP journalists mentioned on Saturday. They had been resulting from shut at 5pm (17:00 GMT).
Some 3.4 million individuals are registered to vote, 52.4 % of whom are below 35 years previous, based on an electoral fee spokesman.
13 candidates are vying for the presidential put up, together with incumbent Julius Maada Bio, with a crippling financial disaster, which sparked lethal riots final yr, on prime of the ballot agenda.
Presidential candidates should safe 55 % of legitimate votes for a first-round win.
Incumbent Bio’s foremost challenger is Samura Kamara of the All Individuals’s Congress (APC) social gathering.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris stories from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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