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Antananarivo – International observers of key elections in Madagascar on Friday expressed satisfaction that the vote had gone well despite isolated violent incidents.
“There was no electoral violence in general, and the election took place in a calm, peaceful and transparent environment,” the head of the European Union (EU) observer mission, Maria Muniz de Urquiza, said.
A local government official was shot dead in a polling station in the south of the Indian Ocean island, while another person was kidnapped in a different town and unknown people set fire to a polling station in the north.
But election authorities said the murder was a revenge attack unrelated to the polls and that voting returned to normal soon after. The killing also occurred in a region notorious for violence related to cattle-rustling. – AFP
Bongani Ndlovu
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