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Senegal holds a referendum on sweeping constitutional reforms, including cutting the presidential term from seven to five years. Senegal's leader Macky Sall was elected in 2012 partly on a platform to reduce the presidential mandate from seven years to five. IMAGES.
Senegal's Constitutional Council overturns the postponement of this month's presidential election, a move that plunged the country into its worst crisis in decades, the country's public news agency and several anonymous state sources said. The Council said the law adopted by the parliament on February 5 -- which delayed the election for 10 months and thus kept President Macky Sall in office -- was unconstitutional, according to the same sources. 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
Polls open in Uzbekistan's constitutional referendum, kicking off a vote that could allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to remain in power until 2040. IMAGES
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