Voting kicks off in #Algeria presidential election
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Algerian police officers try to prevent AFPTV reporter Loutfi Mokdad (C) from filming a protest by the Barakat movement, in Algiers on April 16, 2014. (Photo: AFP / STR) Algerian police officers try to prevent AFPTV reporter Loutfi Mokdad (C) from filming a protest by the Barakat movement, in Algiers on April 16, 2014. (Photo: AFP / STR)
Algerians were voting in presidential elections on Thursday, with incumbent Abdelaziz #Bouteflika widely expected to win a fourth term despite chronic health problems, fraud warnings and opposition calls for a boycott. More than 260,000 police have been deployed to protect the 50,000 polling booths set up across Africa’s largest country, where 23 million Algerians are eligible to vote in (...)