Jazeera Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/jazeera/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jazeera Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/jazeera/ 32 32 Sudan voting wraps up https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/sudan-voting-wraps-up/ Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/sudan-voting-wraps-up/ Sudan’s presidential, parliamentary and state elections wrap up today after three days of voting. Sudanese living abroad will have three days from Friday to cast their ballots at embassies in seven centres in Europe and the Arab world. ends intro Voting has been extended for two days in 160 polling stations that were slow to […]

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Sudanese living abroad will have three days from Friday to cast their ballots at embassies in seven centres in Europe and the Arab world.
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Voting has been extended for two days in 160 polling stations that were slow to open for logistical and organisational reasons.
Voters in areas of Darfur and South Kordofan deemed too dangerous for electoral officials will be allowed to cast their ballots when more security forces are concentrated there.
Because opposition parties have boycotted the election, its success is being measured by the size of the turnout.
President Omar al Bashir and his ruling National Congress Party are a racing certainty to win the contest.
In the capital yesterday I saw no queues outside polling stations.
A hundred kilometers down the road, in Jazeera state, officials at Wadelmadji said 860 of the 1200 people registered at their voting centre centre had cast their ballots.

 

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