Military Power Grabs Show No Sign of Letting Up: Next Africa

A military policeman on an empty road in Freetown on Nov. 26. 

Photographer: Saidu Bah/AFP/Getty Images

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President Julius Maada Bio’s hold on power in Sierra Leone is looking increasingly tenuous.