{"id":35469,"date":"2018-04-05T02:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T00:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/05\/former-soldier-julius-maada-bio-wins-sierra-leone-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T02:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T00:48:25","slug":"former-soldier-julius-maada-bio-wins-sierra-leone-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=35469","title":{"rendered":"Former soldier Julius Maada Bio wins Sierra Leone presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Challenger Bio wins run-off vote, decades after being part of military force that seized power in 1992 coupSierra Leone\u2019s opposition challenger, Julius Maada Bio, has secured his first term in office as a civilian after being declared the winner of a controversial presidential run-off.Bio, a former soldier who briefly led a military junta more than two decades ago, won 51.81% of ballots in last month\u2019s election, according to official results released on Wednesday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/05\/sierra-leone-election-president-julius-maada-bio-wins\" target=\"_blank\">Former soldier Julius Maada Bio wins Sierra Leone presidential election<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenger Bio wins run-off vote, decades after being part of military force that seized power in 1992 coupSierra Leone\u2019s opposition challenger, Julius Maada Bio, has secured his first term in office as a civilian after being declared the winner of a controversial presidential run-off.Bio, a former soldier who briefly led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}