Deborah Hakes is assistant director of public information for The Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center.
In Sudan, people across the country began voting on Sunday. Here are images from the first two days of balloting. This is the 78th election observed by The Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center.
All photos: Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center/ D. Hakes
On Sunday morning, Sudanese lined up to vote at this Khartoum polling station.
In an Omderman polling station, a woman checks in to vote before polls close on April 11.
Algerian Foreign Minister and Member of the Elders Lakhdar Brahimi, co-leader of the Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center’s international election observation mission to Sudan, fills out an observer checklist with Sarah Johnson, assistant director of the Center’s Democracy Program, in Khartoum.
A woman votes in Khartoum on April 11.
A poll station worker waits outside near the close of polls on Sunday, April 11, in Khartoum.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà talks to media in Juba on the second day of polling in Sudan.
Voters in line in Juba on April 12.
Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Center observers Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen and George Wah Williams talk with polling officials in Juba west on April 12.
A woman gets her ballot to vote in Sudan’s election in a rural Juba west polling station.
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