Africa
AHEAD of March 31 presidential run-off poll in Sierra Leone, heads of International Election Observation missions are working hard to ensure a successful and peaceful electoral process. They have held several consultations with political stakeholders including the two political parties contesting the run-off poll and the National Electoral Commission, towards ensuring that the election which was briefly suspended by a High Court order holds without hiccups
Those, who attended the meetings are John Mahama, former president of Ghana and head of the Commonwealth Observation Mission, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, head of Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa, EISA..
- Jonathan, Sawyer and Mahama
Other African leaders in Sierra Leone for the election are Prof. Amos Sawyer, former interim president of Liberia and head of ECOWAS Election Observation Mission and Kgalema Motlanthe, former South African president, who heads the African Union Observation Mission.
The heads of observation missions have held meetings with political parties, National Electoral Commission which led to the rescheduled March 31 election.
Below are the pictures of the heads of missions and other observers after one of the several preventive diplomacy meetings to put Sierra Leone’s electoral process back on track ahead of the rescheduled presidential election.
– Mar. 29, 2018 @ 17:49 GMT |
