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Top candidates vote in Elections 2009

KABUL - The top candidates in Thursday's presidential elections in Afghanistan have voted early, in an effort to motivate the electorate to show up at the polls.

20 Aug 2009

First voting in Kabul

20 August 2009 - 09:30 am: People started to queue early this morning in Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul.

20 Aug 2009

TV news last night

20 August 2009 - 08:59 am: UNAMA's media summary from the main Afghan TV news last night is now available. A media blackout on election campaign reporting was in place.

20 Aug 2009

Voting underway in Mazar: girl votes for the first time

20 August 2009 - 08:45 am: People in Mazar started to reach the polling stations from 06:45 am. After 30 minutes of delay due to the late positioning of the local observers the first voters started to use their democratic right by 07:30 am.

20 Aug 2009

Afghan media live

20 August 2009 - 08:20 am: Member of Parliament Fawzia Koofi has just been live on BBC World Service saying the people are shaping their future.

20 Aug 2009

Afghanistan's only woman governor votes

20 August 2009 - 07:50am: At Bamyan’s Sayed Abad Girl’s High School Governor Habiba Sarabi was the first to vote at a women’s polling station. She said that as a citizen she came to vote, it was her right and responsibility.

20 Aug 2009

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