Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio declared winner of country’s presidential elections.
Bio on Tuesday was re-elected for a second term with 56.17% of the vote, according to the head of the electoral commission.
Some 3.4 million people were registered to vote in Saturday’s election.
Twelve men and one woman stood for president, but Bio’s main challenger was Kamara of the All People’s Congress (APC).
Bio, of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), narrowly beat Kamara in a runoff in 2018.
The president, 59, a former coup leader in the 1990s, has championed education and women’s rights in his first civilian term.
Kamara, 72, a former foreign and finance minister, is facing a protracted trial over allegations that he misappropriated public funds as foreign minister, a case he says is politically motivated.
Security forces on Sunday night violently dispersed opposition supporters at the headquarters of the APC party in Freetown, even though the election was largely peaceful, and calm had returned by Monday.
A woman was killed in the unrest, an APC spokesman said.
– ‘Really traumatic’ –
“She was on the ground floor in the medical unit. She is a nurse. We have a small dispensary in our headquarters where she worked,” the spokesman said.
The woman’s 25-year-old son, Ibrahim Conteh, said that he had identified his mother’s body at the morgue.
“I need justice. I just want to know” who killed my mother, he said in tears.
Police did not confirm the death, while saying they had fired tear gas canisters “to disperse the crowd which was disturbing people on the road”.
Abu Bakar Kargbo, 42, a member of a UK-based opposition party, said the incident was “like a horror film”.
