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"I'm hoping to get at least 55% of the votes for president," says opposition candidate and leader of the Democratic Green Party Frank Habineza, after casting his ballot in Kigali. This as incumbent candidate, President Paul Kagame, is widely expected to win another term and extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years. In 2017 Habineza won just 0.48 percent of the vote. Millions of Rwandans are voting in the general elections to select a president and parliamentary lawmakers. SOUNDBITE
"The results (...) declared and announced by Mr. Wafula Chebukati (...) do not represent the declaration and announcement by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission," says IEBC vice chair Juliana Cherera. Cherera is one of four members of the electoral body who have contested the result of Kenya's presidential election, which declared William Ruto winner. SOUNDBITE
A Moscow appeal court has upheld a prison sentence imposed on chief Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he returned to Russia from Germany last month. Judge Dmitry Balashov rejected Navalny's appeal of the February 2 ruling, which turned a 2014 suspended sentence on embezzlement charges into real jail time. IMAGES
Firefighters fight flames at a regional electoral court in the early morning hours in the Bolivian opposition stronghold of Santa Cruz, after protesters set fire to electoral buildings in other parts of the country amid unrest over partial election results. Firefighters told AFP the blaze started around 0230 local time (0630 GMT) and found molotov cocktails on the scene. IMAGES of the flames
Members of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), led by their president Lazarus Chakwera, march to the constitutional court in Lilongwe, as their lawyers continue to fight for the country’s May 21 presidential election results to be nullified because of "many irregularities." IMAGES
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