Opposition challenger Julius Maada Bio has been elected President of Sierra Leone after Wednesday’s presidential vote.
Chairman of the National Electoral Commission Mohamed Conteh announced that Bio won 51.81 percent of the ballots in the March 31 election compared with 48.19 percent for the incumbent Samura Kamara.
The official results of the vote had been delayed by a dispute over the method of tallying results that left ballot papers from 11,000 polling stations across the poor West African nation uncounted.
