Ghana Election Tight but Peaceful

7 December 2016

Ghanaians turned out in large numbers on Wednesday as President John Mahama faced off opposition frontrunner Nana Akufo-Addo in general elections. DW correspondents said voting was slow but peaceful.

Three hours in the queue of an Accra polling station have turned Azazariah Norteyi into an angry man. "The process is very bad. The queue is not moving at all. People are just squeezing themselves in here and there," he told a DW correspondent in front of a polling station in Ghana's capital.

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