Sierra Leone: Election campaign violence (pub. Aug. 29, 2007)
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President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah on Aug. 28 threatened to declare a state of emergency, after a series of violent clashes between supporters of rival political parties on Aug. 26-27 in Freetown (the capital). Violent clashes also broke out in the eastern town of Kono on Aug. 27. The fighting marred presidential and legislative election campaigns that otherwise had been conducted amid relative calm.
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