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Congo electoral panel promises fair presidential poll but some candidates see flaws

Congo electoral panel promises fair presidential poll but some candidates see flaws

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo's electoral commission said it was ready to provide fair and credible polls next month despite a spiralling security crisis in the east and concerns about transparency in the run-up to the December 20 general election. Campaigning is scheduled to begin next week after a tense and delayed registration period that opposition candidates deemed flawed and favours the ruling coalition. Last month, several presidential candidates demanded measures from the commission to prevent potential fraud. Congo's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) president Denis Kadima met all 26 candidates in the capital Kinshasa on Monday and said the body was committed to organising…
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Sierra Leone opposition calls for election chief to resign

Sierra Leone opposition calls for election chief to resign

SIERRA Leone's leading opposition candidate has called for the country's electoral commissioners to resign a week before a presidential poll, saying his party did not believe in their ability to hold free and fair elections. Samura Kamara, head of the All People's Congress (APC) party, said he wanted the chief electoral commissioner and all regional commissioners of the national election body to be replaced by "an independent internationally accredited team". "We do not have a credible final voters register," Kamara told Reuters late on Wednesday, following an address to the nation. "The production of blurred and substandard voter identity cards,…
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Benin votes for president

Benin votes for president

ALLEGRESSE SASSE and NOEL TADEGNON BENIN’S President Patrice Talon cast his vote yesterday in a presidential poll boycotted by some opposition parties due to pre-election violence and because they object to Talon seeking a second term. Talon, a multi-millionaire cotton magnate who touts strong economic growth under his leadership, is accused by his opponents of undermining Benin's standing as one of West Africa's most stable democracies. Protests in several cities this week turned violent. Some people were killed in gunfire on Thursday in the central town of Bante when security forces fired warning shots, its mayor told local radio, without…
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