Heading the African Union’s observation team, Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasango estimates the turnout in Sudan’s eleHeading the African Union’s observation team, Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasango estimates the turnout in Sudan’s elections this week at 30 to 35 percent.
Heading the African Union’s observation team, Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasango estimates the turnout in Sudan’s elections this week at 30 to 35 percent.
He says extending voting for a fourth day was designed to get more people to the polls.
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All in all, the African Union observer find the results of Sudan’s elections will reflect the expression of the will of the voters.
The team leader, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo commends the peaceful nature of the exercise.
However his estimate of the turnout is way below the 60 percent of voters who cast their ballots in the country’s previous election five years ago.
If Obasanjo’s correct it will be a blow for President Omar Al Bashir’s government because the success of the election will be measured by electors’ participation after opposition parties boycotted the poll. He says extending voting for a fourth day was designed to get more people to the polls.
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All in all, the African Union observer find the results of Sudan’s elections will reflect the expression of the will of the voters.
The team leader, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo commends the peaceful nature of the exercise.
However his estimate of the turnout is way below the 60 percent of voters who cast their ballots in the country’s previous election five years ago.
If Obasanjo’s correct it will be a blow for President Omar Al Bashir’s government because the success of the election will be measured by electors’ participation after opposition parties boycotted the poll. ctions this week at 30 to 35 percent.
He says extending voting for a fourth day was designed to get more people to the polls.
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All in all, the African Union observer find the results of Sudan’s elections will reflect the expression of the will of the voters.
The team leader, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo commends the peaceful nature of the exercise.
However his estimate of the turnout is way below the 60 percent of voters who cast their ballots in the country’s previous election five years ago.
If Obasanjo’s correct it will be a blow for President Omar Al Bashir’s government because the success of the election will be measured by electors’ participation after opposition parties boycotted the poll. Heading the African Union’s observation team, Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasango estimates the turnout in Sudan’s elections this week at 30 to 35 percent.
He says extending voting for a fourth day was designed to get more people to the polls.
ends intro
All in all, the African Union observer find the results of Sudan’s elections will reflect the expression of the will of the voters.
The team leader, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo commends the peaceful nature of the exercise.
However his estimate of the turnout is way below the 60 percent of voters who cast their ballots in the country’s previous election five years ago.
If Obasanjo’s correct it will be a blow for President Omar Al Bashir’s government because the success of the election will be measured by electors’ participation after opposition parties boycotted the poll.
AU observers give low estimate of turnout in Sudan’s election
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Jean-Jacques Cornish is a journalist and broadcaster who has been involved in the media all his adult life.
Starting as a reporter on his hometown newspaper, he moved briefly to then Rhodesia before returning to South Africa to become a parliamentary correspondent with the South African Press Association. He was sent to London as Sapa’s London editor and also served as special correspondent to the United Nations. He joined the then Argus group in London as political correspondent.
Returning to South Africa after 12 years abroad, he was assistant editor on the Pretoria News for a decade before becoming editor of the Star and SA Times for five years.
Since 1999 he’s been an independent journalist writing and broadcasting – mainly about Africa – for Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape
Talk, Radio France International, PressTV, Radio Live New Zealand, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, the BBC, Agence France Press,
Business in Africa, Leadership, India Today, the South African Institute for International Affairs and the Institute for Security Studies.
He has hosted current affairs talk shows on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. He appears as an African affairs pundit on SABC Africa and CNBC Africa.
He lectured in contemporary studies to journalism students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria.
He speaks on African affairs to corporate and other audiences.
He has been officially invited as a journalist to more than 30 countries. He was the winner of the 2007 SADC award for radio journalism.
He’s been a member of the EISA team observing elections in Somaliland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Tunsiai.
In October 2009 he headed a group of 39 African journalists to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
In January 2010 he joined a rescue and paramedical team to earthquake struck Haiti.
He is immediate past president of the Alliance Francaise of Pretoria.
Jean-Jacques is a director of Giant Media. The company was given access to Nelson Mandela in his retirement years until 2009.
He is co-producer of the hour-long documentary Mandela at 90 that was broadcast on BBC in January 2009.
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