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Both the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, U.S.-based democracy support NGOs who sent observers to the initial round of voting, cite a need for enhanced security, better monitoring at each station and greater regulation of the use of state resources for campaigning.
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The Afghan government, international forces -- and the Taliban -- began preparations for the Nov. 7 presidential runoff, even as Western officials also continued advocating a power-sharing compromise to avoid the problems of a second round of voting.
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Reports of fraud and intimidation in Afghanistan’s presidential election continued to mount Saturday, with anecdotal but widespread accounts of ballot-box stuffing, a lack of impartiality among election workers and voters casting ballots for others.
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Defying Taliban threats to bomb polling stations and maim voters, millions of Afghans cast ballots Thursday in a presidential election that was relatively peaceful and orderly despite widespread predictions of violence and fraud.
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The streets of Kabul were eerily quiet on Thursday, as polls for Afghanistan's second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban opened to little fanfare and even smaller crowds. Coming up with a clear national picture is difficult, says Ken Wollack, president of NDI, which has sent a large contingent of election observers to Afghanistan.
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Sporadic bombs and rocket attacks, rumors of suicide squads and reports of fraud weighed heavily on turnout in Afghanistan's presidential election Thursday, potentially casting a shadow over the government's ability to hold the country together once the votes are tallied.
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Some 22 young women who participated in the second annual Young Women Leaders Academy in Doha were imparted practical skills and knowledge necessary to actively participate in the political process in their countries and improve their communities.
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Hundreds of international observers have arrived in the Kurdish autonomous region ahead of the July 25 parliamentary and presidential elections, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.
Hamdiya al-Husseini, the chairwoman of the Kurdish region's electoral commission, told RFI that about 350 foreign monitors have been registered along with over 7,000 local observers.
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Twelve young Russian leaders visited Brussles from June 29 to July 3 as part of a study visit organized by the EU-Russia Centre and NDI’s Moscow office. The pariticipants, ranging from 21 to 27 years old, came from the Pskov and Karelia regions of Russia and represented a variety of organizations including political parties, youth groups and a number of NGOs.
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Posters of Barack Obama festooned the streets of the Ghana capital on Thursday ahead of the first visit to sub-Saharan Africa by the first black U.S. president. Obama will go from the Group of Eight summit in Italy on Friday to press his message that conflict-tainted Africa needs good governance and economic progress.
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