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Added on the 31/03/2019 01:10:16 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian comedian and presidential election frontrunner, plays table tennis with a journalist ahead of the provisional results. 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
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
General Mahamat Idriss Deby, head of the Chadian junta, votes at a polling station in N'djamena. The presidential election marks an end of a three year military rule, with an unprecedented match between Deby and his prime minister, Succes Masra, the former opponent of his regime. IMAGES
Panamanian presidential candidate for the Democratic Change party (Cambio Democrático) Romulo Roux votes in the country's presidential elections. The vote comes as Panama is grappling with deep-rooted corruption, a severe drought that has hobbled its economically critical Panama Canal, and a stream of US-bound migrants passing through its jungles. IMAGES