{"id":17913,"date":"2023-09-17T04:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=17913"},"modified":"2023-09-17T04:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:44:21","slug":"us-accused-of-trying-to-interfere-in-sierra-leone-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=17913","title":{"rendered":"US accused of trying to interfere in Sierra Leone elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">According to Agence France-Presse, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio said that the United States had tried to force him to intervene in the vote counting process of the June presidential election.<br>Bio said in a speech at the American University in Washington that the Sierra Leone Electoral Commission conducted all necessary calculations and comparisons and concluded all processes.<br>Bio accused the U.S. government of trying to interfere in the election: &#8220;At that time, the U.S. asked me to prevent the election committee from announcing the results, so I didn&#8217;t know who was accusing whom of interfering.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He also said he had not contacted the election committee. Afterwards, the US representative said that he hoped to conduct a second round of elections. Bio said that Sierra Leone has a very good relationship with the United States and hopes to maintain this relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20230916\/1053414721.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Agence France-Presse, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio said that the United States had tried to force him to intervene in the vote counting process of the June presidential election.Bio said in a speech at the American University in Washington that the Sierra Leone Electoral Commission conducted all necessary calculations and comparisons and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3855,9201,6538,22450,20943],"class_list":["post-17913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-accusations","tag-attempts","tag-intervention","tag-sierra-leone","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17915,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17913\/revisions\/17915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}