'Concerns' remain over Sierra Leone's 'election process & wider space for criticism of government'

The attacks Sunday on Sierra Leone’s main military barracks and prisons are a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government’s spokesman said Tuesday. The attackers attempted to “overthrow the elected government of Sierra Leone,” Information Minister Chernor Bah said as he briefed reporters about the early-morning attack that took security forces and residents by surprise in the usually peaceful capital city of Freetown. For more on the attacks on Sierra Leone's barracks and prisons that the government has called a failed coup, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by Jamie Hitchen, author, independent research analyst and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK.