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22/05/2012 - Report: Egypt

Youth movement to protect Egypt’s presidential polls against fraud

A key Egyptian youth movement is readying itself to protect Egypt’s presidential polls from electoral fraud with a 10,000-strong team of election observers.

06/05/2012

French weekly magazines review

Will the French be able to live with each other once the voting's over? Can the establishment live with the Front National?

29/04/2012

French weekly magazines review

The magazines are offering clarification on why last week’s first round presidential vote produced no clear winner.

30/03/2012

French press review 30 March 2012

Here are the stories making the headlines in this morning’s French papers.

Protests force Putin election strategy rethink
29/02/2012 - World news explained

Protests force Putin election strategy rethink

The latest state-run opinion poll in Russia shows that Vladimir Putin will win this weekend's presidential election with nearly 60 per cent of the vote.

How much support for Boko Haram in Nigeria?
27/02/2012 - African news explained

How much support for Boko Haram in Nigeria?

In Nigeria, a new poll shows that most Nigerians do not back the views of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group whose name means "western education is sinful." After conducting ...

11/12/2011 - Côte d'Ivoire

Low turnout in Côte d'Ivoire's first post-Gbagbo poll

There was a low turnout Sunday in Côte d’Ivoire’s first general election after the ousting of former president Laurent Gbagbo, whose supporters boycotted the poll.

01/12/2011 - DRC presidential election 2011

Slideshow: Counting the votes in Kinshasa

The task facing the Democratic Republic of Congo’s independent electoral commission (Ceni) is immense - 32 million ballots from over 63,000 polling stations to count before 6 December in the ...

01/12/2011 - Report DRC presidential election 2011

Satan, exorcism and magic T-shirts - our favourite rumours from DRC presidential poll

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa is a rumour mill. No more so that during the country’s 2011 presidential elections.

30/11/2011 - DRC presidential election 2011

Slideshow: Opening the ballot boxes

Counting for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential elections began in earnest on Tuesday.

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