Sierra Leonean police announced that they had used tear gas canisters to disperse opposition supporters in Freetown, the day after the presidential election, which passed off generally peacefully and is still being counted.
Samura Kamara, the main opponent of incumbent president, Julius Maada Bio in the election, said on Twitter that bullets had been fired at his party’s headquarters in the capital.
Police said APC members were demonstrating in Freetown “announcing to the public that they have won” the elections. These demonstrators attracted outside the APC headquarters “a crowd” of supporters who “started causing trouble to passers-by”, it explained in the statement sent to AFP.