The News Review:

- Sierra Leone presidential run-off set for Sept. 8
- Opposition Claims Majority in Sierra Leone Parliament
- Sierra Leone: presidential runoff likely

Sierra Leone presidential run-off set for Sept. 8
International Herald Tribune – Aug 25, 2007
8 – International Herald Tribune. 8, officials said Saturday.

Opposition Claims Majority in Sierra Leone Parliament
New York Times – Aug 16, 2007
15 (Reuters) — Sierra Leone’s main opposition party said Wednesday that it had won a parliamentary majority in national elections and vowed to mount a legal challenge if official results, still trickling in, showed otherwise. The party, the All People’s Congress, said it had won 61 of 112 seats in Parliament, based on results from polling stations around the West African country that were collated by party officials. The opposition party also said its leader, Ernest Koroma, was ahead in the presidential election, held alongside the parliamentary vote on Saturday, beating the incumbent vice president, Solomon Berewa of the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party. But the All People’s Congress urged its supporters to wait for the official results before celebrating. A spokesman for the party, Alpha Kanu, said its leader was “calling on all Sierra Leoneans from all parties to exercise patience, remain calm, and not to behave like the proverbial young antelope who danced himself lame before the main dance.

Sierra Leone: presidential runoff likely
USA Today – Aug 18, 2007
With votes counted from about 80 percent of the country’s more than 6,000 polling stations, Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People’s Congress had 44 percent of the total, electoral commission chief Christiana Thorpe said. Vice President Solomon Berewa, of the ruling party, was in second place with 38 percent of votes counted so far, Thorpe said. A candidate needs 55 percent of the vote for outright victory. Otherwise, the top two finishers will meet in a runoff.