Vote counting was underway in Zambia after a hard-fought general election that saw social media throttled in the capital and President Edgar Lungu send more troops to three provinces to quell violence.
AFP | MARCO LONGARI
Thursday's vote presented a test of democracy in the usually peaceful southern African nation country of more than 17 million people, where rising living costs appear to have diminished support for Lungu, who is accused of growing increasingly iron-fisted since taking office in 2015. The PF also alleges some of its agents were beaten and chased from polling stations in the Southern province.
Hakainde Hichilema, who is vying the top job for the sixth time and is backed by an alliance of 10 partiesThere are fears the president could be"exaggerating the extent of violence and instability in opposition regions to justify" invalidating their results, Nic Cheeseman, British political scientist and author of"How to Rig an Election", tweeted on Thursday.
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