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Africa & Middle East · reference

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Presidential republic

SystemPresidential republic
Head of statePresident Julius Maada Bio (head of state and government)
LegislatureParliament · 149 seats, including 14 paramount chiefs
ElectionsCompetitive two-party elections, though international observers questioned the 2023 result's transparency
Last election2023-06-24 · general election
Next election2028 · general election due

Politics alternates between the SLPP and APC, and a post-election agreement brought the opposition back into parliament after its 2023 boycott. An armed attack on armouries and prisons in November 2023 was prosecuted as an attempted coup. The country remains among the world's poorest despite diamond and mineral wealth, two decades after its civil war ended.

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