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At a central petrol station in Makeni, the largest city in Sierra Leone’s Northern Province, Balu Kanu pointed weakly at her stomach. “I’m hungry. That’s the main thing that is affecting me,” she said. Kanu – who looked to be in her 80s, but didn’t know her own age – used to be a businesswoman, but now she gets by through begging. “The economy is bad, it’s affecting everybody,” she noted. Sierra Leone – a West African country of roughly 8.4 million – goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president, along with parliamentarians, mayors and local...
