CAFRICA-POLITICS-ELECTION-VOTE
A Rwandan peacekeeper of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) (R), a private Russian security guard (C), and a member of the the presidential guard (L), stands guard while Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadera (not visible) is at the Barthélemy Boganda high school polling station in the 1st district in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), on December 27, 2020 during the country’s presidential and legislative elections. – Voting began in the Central African Republic on December 27, 2020, in a key test for one of the world’s most troubled nations.
The polls take place after a week of turbulence, marked by accusations of an attempted coup, the brief seizure of the CAR’s fourth-largest town and the dispatch of military personnel by Russia and Rwanda to help its beleaguered government. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)