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Police fire teargas amid protest in Guinea ahead of a Constitutional referendum Sunday that could prolong President Alpha Conde's rule, with the leader vowing to go ahead with the vote despite opposition and the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Smoke billows from a night of rioting in New Caledonia, where vehicles were torched and shops looted, over a proposed constitutional reform being debated in the National Assembly in Paris that aims to widen the electorate in the territory's provincial elections and has angered separatists in the French Pacific territory. IMAGES
By the light of a flashlight, electoral agents begin counting ballots as polls closed in Chad's referendum on a new constitution, a vote seen as a key step toward elections and the return of civilian rule promised, which has been postponed, by the ruling military junta. IMAGES
In Bamako, a voter heads to the polling station to have his say in the referendum on the governing junta's constitution. The west African nation has been under military rule since an August 2020 coup. Some 8.4 million citizens are eligible to vote "yes" or "no" on the draft constitution in the first electoral test for leader Colonel Assimi Goita, 40, who has vowed to lead the country back to civilian rule in 2024 elections. IMAGES
A polling station wraps up affairs in Tashkent as the polls close across Uzbekistan, ending a day of voting in the Central Asian nation in a constitutional referendum that could allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to remain in power until 2040. Mirziyoyev, 65, became president in 2016 after the death of dictator Islam Karimov. IMAGES
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