Clashes in Capital Precede Postwar Election
From Times Wire Reports
Clashes erupted in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, between former rebels and supporters of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah ahead of a Tuesday election that follows a decade of war.
Police said some Kabbah supporters might have been killed in the violence, which followed scuffles near the office of the Revolutionary United Front Party.
Kabbah’s supporters choked the streets--drumming, dancing, singing and waving cans of beer and the palm frond symbol of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party.
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