In Burkina Faso, electoral observers are readying themselves for this weekend's landmark polls. Codel, a grouping of civil society organisations, is deploying some 5,000 observers to monitor elections temporarily derailed by a failed coup attempt in September. The polls are seen as key to the country's transition to democracy following last year's overthrow of strongman Blaire Compaore.
"We've living in a very extraordinary time in Burkina," Ismael Diallo, a member of Codel's expert committee, told RFI. "This is the first time in more than 30 years that we don't know who'll be president."
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