Voters wait in line Saturday to cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary and local elections at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A decade after Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, voters had to choose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decried the country’s poverty and pace of economic recovery. (Associated Press)
Voters wait in line Saturday to cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary and local elections at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A decade after Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, voters had to choose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decried the country’s poverty and pace of economic recovery. (Associated Press)
Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma (white hat) must get 55 percent of the votes or he will face his main opponent, Julius Maada Bio, in a second round of voting. A decade after Sierra Leone’s civil war, voters went to the polls Saturday. Results are pending. (Associated Press)
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is on trial for war crimes in Sierra Leone, but many Liberians want him to face justice for massacres, rapes and torture committed during his rule of their country. (International Criminal Court via Associated Press)
Nafees Khan, project manager for African-Origins at Emory University in Atlanta, listens March 2010 to the audio recordings of names found in Courts of Mixed Commission records for Havana and Freetown, Sierra Leone, to identify their likely ethno-linguistic origins. (Associated Press/Emory University)
Sani Boubakar of Niger (above) prays and Richard Arthur Opentil of Ghana savors victory after Niger's team lost to Ghana's Black Challenge, which Opentil captains, at last week's 2011 Cup of African Nations for Amputee Football tournament in Ghana. Angola, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone also fielded teams, and Liberia won the cup. The competitions help players not only overcome their disabilities but also move beyond turbulence in their nations. (Clair MacDougall/Special to The Washington Times)
