The citizens of Sierra Leone are conducting the general election of the president and the members of the parliament at the same time as the...

 The citizens of Sierra Leone are conducting the general election of the president and the members of the parliament at the same time as they are calling for an end to the problem of the cost of living in the country.

 issue ofSince the country's civil war from 1991 to 2002 and the Ebola epidemic that it experienced ten years later, the West African nation's economy has not yet fully recovered.

In the presidential election, about 12 men and one woman competed for office, although President Julius Maada Bio and his close buddy Samura Kamara of the APC party are the leading contenders.

After Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) defeated Kamara in the second round of the 2018 elections, the major contenders will run for office again.

According to the country's election authority, 3.4 million people have registered to vote, more than half of whom are young people under the age of 35.