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Sierra Leone President Maada Bio has taken an early lead in the country’s presidential election, provisional results showed

The Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone said it had so far tallied around 60% of the total vote and expects to declare a winner in the next two days. The election is considered a two-horse race between President Bio, 59, of the Sierra Leone People’s Party and 72-year-old former cabinet minister Samura Kamara, who leads the opposition All People’s Congress party. Bio has so far polled more than a million votes and currently leads Kamara with over 200,000 votes, according to ECSL.

In a series of tweets, Kamara said his party’s headquarters had been surrounded by government forces and live bullets had been fired at the door of his private office. “This is an assassination attempt,” he added. Another opposition leader, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, who is seeking reelection as the mayor of Freetown, posted photos from inside the surrounded building and wrote: “I am in the APC Party office and we are under fire. It is tear gas and what sounds like live rounds.

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