{"id":5606,"date":"2021-06-21T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:38:00","slug":"au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa","title":{"rendered":"AU Election Observation Mission Monitoring Voting Process in Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Addis Ababa June 21\/2021 (ENA) The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission led by the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has been monitoring the voting process in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>ENA reporter has seen the former Nigerian President and his team observing the election in constituency 21\/22 polling station 4 and 5 in Kirkos Sub-city of Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>Some 45,000 domestic and 45 local civic society organizations are observing the election in addition to the 120 international observers, including the Africa Union and the East African Standby Force.<\/p>\n<p>The residents of Addis Ababa are also casting their ballots peacefully starting from 6 AM in the morning, according to ENA\u2019s reporter.<\/p>\n<p>ENA reporters observing the voting process in some polling station in the city said that the voters are waiting long queues to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15 political parties have been contending for House of People\u2019s Representatives and City Councils in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. Addis Ababa June 21\/2021 (ENA) The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission led by the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has been monitoring the voting process in Addis Ababa. ENA reporter has seen the former Nigerian President and his team observing the election in constituency 21\/22 polling station 4 and 5 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,277,235],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ethiopia-2","tag-ethiopia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AU Election Observation Mission Monitoring Voting Process in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Addis Ababa June 21\/2021 (ENA) The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission led by the former Nigerian President ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AU Election Observation Mission Monitoring Voting Process in Addis Ababa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Addis Ababa June 21\/2021 (ENA) The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission led by the former Nigerian President ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ethiopia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-21T17:44:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/img-60d0c04907a7b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AU Election Observation Mission Monitoring Voting Process in Addis Ababa\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-21T17:44:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/img-60d0c04907a7b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ethiopia\",\"ethiopia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/au-election-observation-mission-monitoring-voting-process-in-addis-ababa\",\"name\":\"AU Election Observation Mission Monitoring Voting Process in Addis Ababa - 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