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Little movement is seen in the streets of Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, placed under curfew as the Somali parliament elects the next president. MPs vote in a tent inside Mogadishu's airport complex, held under tight security by the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), with dozens of candidates vying for the position in the troubled nation as it battles an Islamist insurgency and the threat of famine. IMAGES
Security forces start early voting in Congo's presidential election ahead of the March 21 ballot that the Catholic Church warned could be distorted by coronavirus restrictions and a shaky electoral system. 36-year incumbent president Denis Sassou Nguesso faces six challengers but remains a firm favourite for reelection. IMAGES
Polls open in Goma, DR Congo for the presidential election. Electors are choosing a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who is stepping down two years after his term limit expired -- a delay that sparked bloody clashes and revived traumatic memories of past turmoil.
Chadians begin to vote as polling stations open in N'Djamena to elect their president after three years of transition under military rule. Voters are to choose whether to extend decades of Deby family rule with the junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno or opt for his own prime minister, Succes Masra, denounced as a stooge by critics in the absence of any other serious challenger. The eight other candidates, either little known or considered not hostile to the regime, are not expected to win many votes. IMAGES
Supporters of DR Congo president Felix Tshisekedi celebrate his re-election in front of his party's headquarters in Kinshasa after provisional results declared by the country's electoral commission showed that Tshisekedi had won 73 percent of the vote. Tshisekedi, 60, first came to power in January 2019 after a disputed election that many observers said he had in fact lost, and the opposition have dismissed the latest vote in the central African country as a "sham". IMAGES
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Goma, a day after a general election marred by widespread logistical problems that saw some polling stations around the Democratic Republic of Congo, either never open or open late and then shut down early. IMAGES
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