To promote democracy globally, we must fix the system in Sierra Leone, Samura Kamara says

On Twitter, Samura Kamara, the presidential nominee for the All People's Congress political party in Sierra Leone, shared a letter expressing concern about recent events in the country. Kamara stated that Sierra Leone had experienced a "sad day" when the Chief Electoral Commissioner Mohamed Konneh presented a Certificate of Return at State House, following what Kamara called an "electoral coup and unprecedented election fraud." He went on to explain that Sierra Leone had not been the same since the "paopas" came to power, a local term meaning "whether you like it or not." Kamara recounted how, in June 2023, Sierra Leoneans had come out in large numbers to vote against an "autocratic and ethnocentric regime."However, the decline in democracy culminated in the most blatant electoral fraud ever. Kamara warned that if this situation continues, it could lead to the death of democracy in Sierra Leone and threaten its consolidation, give