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20 August 2009 - 09:30 am: People started to queue early this morning in Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul.
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. Noorin TV Headlines Three Taliban attacked a bank in…
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…
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. One of the great successes in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001…
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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…
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20 August 2009 - 07:31 am: The Education Faculty in Jalalabad saw 58 year old Muhammad Yusef turn up at 5:45 am to vote. He said he had never voted before. 200 people showed up in the first half hour Voting has started in…
Dili, 20 August 2009 - Today marks the 34th anniversary of the formation of the Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste (FALINTIL)- translated in English as The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East…
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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…
20 August 2009 - 12:01 am: Afghanistan votes today in historic presidential and provincial council elections. The Secretary-General of the United Nations has encouraged all Afghans to vote in the name of the “peace and…
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…