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Added on the 25/02/2023 11:37:24 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A crowd of voters wait outside a polling station in Abuja, Nigeria, as voting material arrives late. Millions of voters are expected to cast their ballots for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in a tightly fought race, with three frontrunners competing for the first time in the country's modern history. IMAGES
Voting gets underway in India's election, with people queueing to cast their ballots in Haridwar. The Indian city is one of the first places to vote in the world's largest election. Some 968 million people are eligible to vote over a six-week period. IMAGES
Heads of state from member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) arrive in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to discuss the situation in Niger, which has been under sanctions for seven months, at a new extraordinary summit of the regional organisation. IMAGES
The heads of West African states gather in Abuja to hold an extraordinary summit on Niger, following a coup d'etat which has established military leaders as the new heads of state. The summit follows an announcement overnight by Niger's military regime that they had formed a new government. ECOWAS says it has not ruled out military intervention in order to reinstate overthrown president Mohamed Bazoum. IMAGES
West African leaders arrive at the extraordinary summit on Niger, in Abuja. ECOWAS is not ruling out the use of armed force to reinstate the overthrown president Mohamed Bazoum, meanwhile the regime that emerged from the coup has just announced the formation of a government. IMAGES