Following the end of the 11 years devastating war, Sierra Leoneans tested their political tolerance in three successive democratic elections from 1996 to2007. Those elections ended peacefully, with minor political hitches without witnessing violent actions.
As a post-conflict country that witnessed one of the world’s brutal rebel wars, the expectation was that those past elections would have provided latent worries about threats of another war. But, with national resolve, the people of Sierra Leone reflected on the wrongs of the past and decided to vote peacefully to step out of engaging in bloodshed to elect a leader of their choice.
