Freetown — Only 38 women - of a total of 586 candidates - will contest parliamentary seats in Sierra Leone's November elections, and the blame for this can be laid squarely on the shoulders of the current group of female lawmakers, according to Barbara Bangura, the director of the women's organisation Grassroots Empowerment for Self Reliance.
The Nov. 17 elections will only be this West African nation's third election since the civil war ended here in 2002.
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