Thousands to monitor Katiba, election votes

The observers join the EU EOM’s Core Team of election analysts who arrived in the country on September 11. The EU EOM to Tanzania is led by Judith Sargentini, a Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands.

Voters are going to the polls in Botswana in what is expected to be the closest general elections in the world's largest diamond producer.

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Tanzania Votes in Tight Election Race
NDTV
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania votes in presidential and general elections today, in what is expected to be the tightest race in the history of East Africa's most populous country. Analysts say the presidential race is between John Magufuli of the long-ruling ...
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Wall Street Journal
Tanzania Votes in Closely Contested Election
Wall Street Journal
NAIROBI—Tanzania went to the polls Sunday in the most closely contested election in its history and the first that poses a substantial challenge to its one-party rule. East Africa's most populous country and second-largest economy has been ruled by ...
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Vote are being counted in Zambia's presidential elections, where the ruling party's candidate, Edgar Lungu, has a slim lead over his rival, Hakainde Hichilema.

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Thousands of Burundians flee as election tensions rise.
IPPmedia
Burundians seeking refuge in Tanzania arrive at Kibirizi port in Kigoma Region, as captured by our photographer yesterday. (Photo: Correspondent Emmanuel Matinde). The the number of Burundians crossing the border into Tanzania seeking refugee had ...

IBNLive
Tanzania votes in closest presidential election race in the country's history
IBNLive
Tanzanians voted in presidential and general elections on Sunday in what has been billed as the closest race in the country's history, with the governing party facing the first major challenge to its dominance in decades. Polling in East Africa's most ...
Polls open in landmark Tanzania electionMail & Guardian Online
Tanzania's ruling party looks set for poll win, opposition cries foulNews24
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There will be no new constitution until after the 2015 General Election. We have it on the authority of the chairman of the Tanzania Centre for Democracy (TCD), Mr John Cheyo.

Tanapa now to monitor jumbos through satellite
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The Tanzania National Parks has launched a special programme to tag 30 elephants in the Ruaha National Park and Rungwa Game Reserve commonly known as the Great Ruaha landscape to be monitored through the use of satellite system. This is part of ...