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UN envoy visits polling station at Kabul school

KABUL - UN envoy Kai Eide has visited one of the polling stations in Kabul at the Zarghona High School in the Qala-i-Fatullah area of the city.

20 Aug 2009

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

Polling stations open

KABUL - Polling stations are opening across the country now. On one of Afghanistan's leading TV stations a live election show is already underway. Farhad Darya, probably Afghanistan's most popular singer, is appealing for people to vote.

20 Aug 2009

Election Day 2009: Afghanistan votes

20 August 2009 - 12:01 am: Afghanistan votes today in historic presidential and provincial council elections.

19 Aug 2009

Election Day 2009: UN Special Representative says let Afghans vote

Elections 2009 - The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has urged Afghans to vote and called on groups threatening violence to allow their fellow Afghans to choose their future leader.

19 Aug 2009

Election Day 2009: Key facts and figures on the polls

KABUL - The huge logistical operation for the elections has been massive from 36 million ballot papers to more than 3,000 donkeys. Read some of the key statistics on the elections.

Printed presidential ballot papers: 18,030,000

19 Aug 2009

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