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MAPUTO (Reuters) buy canada goose jacket Mozambicans voted canada goose outlet store locations on Wednesday in elections expected to return the ruling Frelimo party to power in one of Africa canada goose store fastest growing resource rich economies, and international observers said voting was generally peaceful.

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Throughout Wednesday, lines had formed at polling stations in the port capital canada goose clearance sale Maputo and other cities, towns and villages. Voters waited patiently to make their choice in the elections for a new president, parliament and provincial assemblies.

to now, it has been rather calm, and I would like it to stay that way, the head of the European Union observer buy canada goose jacket cheap mission, Judith Sargentini, told Reuters shortly after polls closed.

Sargentini, a Dutch member of the European Parliament who was one of more than 1,000 international observers monitoring the elections, said voting appeared to have gone mostly smoothly canada goose clearance at the more than 17,000 polling stations, apart from some delays and hitches. An incident of ballot papers being burned was reported in the northwest canada goose province of Tete.

Foreign donors and investors hope the ballot will help to bury old canada goose deals animosities Canada Goose sale lingering from the 1975 1992 civil war fought between Frelimo and its old foe Renamo.

More than 10 million voters were registered to take part in the elections in the former Portuguese colony, whose 2,500 Canada Goose online km (1,550 mile) canada goose coats on sale coast extends from Tanzania to South Africa.

Mozambicans say they want whoever wins the vote to use newly discovered coal and natural gas reserves to end poverty and inequality and to provide jobs.

country has natural riches, from Rovuma to Maputo, but they are still not being converted into benefits for the people, said Alberto Eduardo, 44, a delivery worker who voted at a school in Maputo Polana Canico A neighborhood, a labyrinth of dusty tracks squeezed between ramshackle homes.

Frelimo is a read more here former Marxist liberation movement that has ruled Mozambique since independence in 1975.

Its presidential candidate, former defense minister Filipe Nyusi, faces a determined challenge from both the Renamo leader and ex rebel chief Canada https://www.canadagoose-online-shop.co.uk/ Goose Parka Afonso Dhlakama and from a rising third force Daviz Simango and his Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM).

Outgoing Frelimo President Armando Guebuza is barred by the constitution from standing for a third term.

The election, the fifth presidential vote since a 1992 peace deal ended the civil war, is most competitive in the history of the country John Stremlau, vice president of peace programs at the Atlanta based Carter Center and another of the foreign observers, told Reuters.

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The Ebola epidemic in three West African nations has cast Canada Goose Jackets a pall over the wider region, but Mozambique in the southeast corner of Africa is so far Ebola free. The IMF sees its gross domestic product (GDP) growth topping 8 percent this year, though most of its more than 25 million people are poor.

real test of this transition moment is whether the political leaders who have historically fought each other will think in terms of a government of national unity, so that you will have inclusivity in the aftermath, Stremlau said.

He noted all of the main political leaders had said they would accept the result.

In their campaigns, Renamo Dhlakama and MDM Simango attacked what they say is the stranglehold Frelimo has long maintained canada goose outlet toronto factory over political and economic power in canadian goose jacket Mozambique.

belongs to everyone was the slogan of Simango, 50, a Renamo defector and civil cheap Canada Goose engineer who made a credible first showing in the 2009 presidential vote and whose party made gains in local government elections last year.

In the two years before the vote, Dhlakama armed Renamo partisans clashed sporadically with government troops and police and ambushed traffic on a north south highway, triggering some concerns Mozambique could slide back into civil war.

The white haired, bespectacled former guerrilla leader, who is 61, emerged from a bush canada goose replica hideout last month to ratify a deal with President Guebuza reaffirming the 1992 peace pact.

Another international observer, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, said a peaceful outcome was important not just for Mozambique but for Africa. or instability in Mozambique affects the whole region, he said.