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Guinean President Alpha Conde, 82, rallies thousands of supporters at a last campaign event at the Stade du 28 Septembre ahead of presidential elections on Sunday. The poll follows months of political unrest, where mass protests against a Conde third term, from October last year, have left dozens of people dead in a security-forces crackdown. IMAGES
President Filipe Nyusi casts his vote in Maputo as polls open in tense Mozambique elections that are feared could test the country's fragile peace, after a heated campaign marred by violence and allegations of electoral fraud. IMAGES
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds his last campaign rally in Istanbul. Turks vote on Sunday in snap twin presidential and parliamentary elections called by Erdogan one-and-a-half years ahead of schedule, with the president seeking a first-round victory for a new mandate and a strong parliamentary majority. IMAGES
Hundreds attend a rally organised by Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) to demand "fair and clean elections". In a predictable March 18 presidential election, Communist candidate, Pavel Grudinin, is likely to be runner-up to President Vladimir Putin, though he lags far behind in state-run opinion polls at around seven percent. IMAGES
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta holds a rally in Nairobi ahead of elections on 8 August. The contest between Kenyatta and Odinga is expected to be among Kenya's closest in years, raising fears that post-election violence could break out, as it did after the disputed 2007 vote. IMAGES