Political analysts say a low rate of participation in the elections would be a sign of deepening discontent with Cuba's one-party, communist-run system.
Over 90 million registered voters cast their ballots on Sunday despite incidents of violence and technical issues. Incumbent Buhari's two-term reign has ended, with main contenders Tinubu and Abubakar vying for the top job.
Partial and regional tallies start to trickle in on Friday, with final consolidated results expected by Sunday, although President Edgar Lungu's party hints it is heading for victory.
The parliamentary election pits Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva's Movement for Democracy against its main challenger, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, a socialist party led by Janira Hopffer Almada.
Some of the largest US corporations and powerful business leaders sign new statement objecting to “any discriminatory legislation," including Amazon, American Airlines, Bank of America, Google and Best Buy, Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg.
Smartmatic has alleged that Fox and other defendants invented a story that the election was stolen from Trump and decided to make the company “the villain in their story."
More than 100 million Indonesians are registered to vote at polls staffed by almost 2.7 million election workers, with some taking ballot boxes to hospitalised Covid patients.
President-elect Joe Biden solidified his victory over Trump in the US election with a win in traditionally Republican-leaning Georgia, according to US media.
If it wants to have a functional democratic system, the US would do well to benchmark itself against other countries – and learn something from them too.
The polls have closed in the US presidential election but the race for the White House between Trump and Biden is still unresolved.
Tanzania's two main opposition parties have called for a re-run of Wednesday's election after populist President John Magufuli was declared the winner with a crushing 84 percent of votes amid fraud allegations.
Voters on the Tanzanian mainland and semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar will cast their ballots for a president and lawmakers after an energetic campaign which saw massive turnout for both the ruling party and opposition.
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