(AFP) - Eight million voters go to the polls Friday in a presidential election that is hoped will return Madagascar to democratic rule, attract much needed funding and pull the island-nation out of a debilitating economic rut occasioned by a coup in 2009.
Some 21,000 polling stations will open for the crucial election which has attracted some 800 international observers and 5,000 local ones.
Chinese observers were the latest to arrive, with Madagascar officials praising the Asian
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