The top two candidates in Sierra Leone's presidential race will face each other in a second round after neither won enough votes to avoid a runoff, the electoral commission said Thursday. Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma finished first with 44 percent, compared with 38 percent for Vice President Solomon Berewa of the ruling party, said Christiana Thorpe, who heads the country's independent electoral commission. To avoid a second round, a candidate needed to win 55 percent. A date for the runoff is expected to be announced on Saturday.
