Approximately 60 incidents of violence and nine deaths had been recorded during the political rallies held across the country, in preparation for Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, disclosed this information in its Election Analysis Centre (EAC) brief released ahead of the presidential polls. CDD had also revealed that several others had been injured in the attacks ever since the political campaigns began in September 2022.
Meanwhile, the EAC is expected to keep a watchful eye on the key processes before, during, and after the elections, this is as it had deployed more than 4,993 trained and accredited observers, 42 data clerks, and 15 fact-checkers and social media experts to monitor the elections.
