source: New Citizen
actor1: Unidentified Armed Group (Guinea)
actor2: Police Forces of Sierra Leone (2018-)
location: Freetown
notes: On 22 February 2020, a group of unidentified individuals suspected to be Guinean mercenaries attacked the embassy of Guinea in Freetown city (Western Area Urban, Western). They reportedly fired shots in the air, disarmed and beat a Sierra Leonean police guard, and destroyed some voting materials. One of the assailants was mobbed and killed after the residents took them for thieves, and another injured, and six arrested as they fled.