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Added on the 18/03/2018 18:00:00 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
INEC officials begin to count votes at a polling station in Lagos, where people have gathered to count along and make sure the votes are properly registered. Nigerians streamed out to vote in what many hope would be a fairer election for a new leader who would deliver the country from widespread insecurity and economic malaise. IMAGES
Frank Habineza, opposition presidential candidate and leader of the only authorised opposition party, the Democratic Green Party, casts his ballot in Kigali. Millions of Rwandans began voting in presidential and parliamentary elections, with the African nation's leader Paul Kagame expected to win another term and extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years. IMAGES
Counting began at the Noumea Town Hall in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, where 32.4% of voters had cast their ballots by midday, a sharp increase on the turnout for the 2022 general election, which stood at 13.06% at midday. IMAGES
Hamadi Ould Sidi el Moctar, opposition candidate for the Islamist party, Tewassoul, which he heads, is voting in Mauritania's presidential election in Nouakchott, the capital of this vast country of around 4.5 million inhabitants which sits at the crossroads between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. IMAGES
Officials count ballots in Indian-adminstered Kashmir, where voters are expected to show their discontent with dramatic changes in the disputed territory under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Modi's party did not field any candidates in the Kashmir valley for the first time since 1996. IMAGES