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The electoral commission in Sierra Leone says provisional results from the presidential election show that President Julius Maada Bio is leading with 60 percent of votes counted. However, his main rival, Samura Kamara of the All People's Congress (APC), has called the provisional results "daylight robbery", alleging that his electoral agents were not allowed to verify the ballot counting. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of the APC party is the former mayor of Freetown and up for re-election. She told Newsday that the APC had asked “the electoral commission to stop the announcements…before (they) announce the remaining 40% (of votes), there’s a need for everyone to be given access to the information. First to verify it, which is what the law requires…anything short of that is definitely going to be questionable and our real worry is the violence we’re seeing.” (Picture: Shows the president of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL), Mohamed Konneh (C) releasing partial election results in Freetown on June 26, 2023. Credit: John Wessels / APF via Getty Images.)