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Zambia votes in closely contested polls
LUSAKA: Zambians were voting in nationwide elections on Thursday after a tense campaign dominated by economic woes and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.Sixteen presidential candidates are vying for the top job, but the frontrunners are incumbent Edgar Lungu, 64, and his long-time nemesis and business tycoon Hakainde Hichilema, 59, who are facing off at the polls for the third time.Hichilema, who is running for a sixth time, is backed by an alliance of 10 parties.Hundreds of people waited in long queues in the dark - to cast ballots at a secondary school in Lusaka’s Matero township.President Lungu was among the first people to vote in Lusaka.After casting his ballot at a school in Chawa

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