Central African Republic Elections, long delayed are held peacefully

Central African Republic started casting their ballots on wednesday in long delayed elections that represent the best hope of reuniting the country, one of the world's poorest, after three years of sectarian violence that displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Turnout was heavy among the 1.8 million registered voters, nearly 40 percent of the population.
stores were largely closed so that workers could cast their ballots, a process that took hours.
Many lined up outside schools and other pulling places well before they opened at 6 am, as united nations peacekeepers from Burundi, Egypt,France, Pakistan and other countries, along with 40 election monitors from from the African Union, Kept watch. As polls prepared to close at 4p.m, people were still waiting to vote, including older men with walking sticks and women carrying babies on their backs.
Thirty candidates are running for president in the first round of voting, and elections are being held for parliament. Because of technical and organizational problems, the vote had been delayed numerous times. It is good that everything went fine that day.