Sierra Leone votes - Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - November 17, 2012

11/17/2012

Sierra Leone votes - Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - November 17, 2012

Joe Penny/Reuters

A girl watches voters at a polling station during presidential elections in Freetown November 17, 2012. Sierra Leoneans vote on Saturday in elections they hope can propel the small West African state into an era of prosperity based on mining and oil after a decade of difficult recovery from civil war. The presidential and parliamentary polls, the third held since the end of the 1991-2002 conflict, pit President Ernest Bai Koroma and his ruling All People's Congress (APC) against challenger Julius Maada Bio, a former junta leader who represents the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).

—@canice

Posted by at 11:07:29 PM in Current Affairs, Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day, Politics

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11/17/2012