Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday for a presidential election that is likely to be dominated by concerns over the jihadist violence that has cost more than 2,000 lives this year alone and will prevent hundreds of thousands from voting due to the security risks.
Around 6.5 million people will vote in Sunday's election. But nearly 1,500 of the country's 8,000 villages and 22 of more than 300 communes will not be able to vote because of the security risks; the electoral commission says polling stations will remain shut across much of the north and east for fear of violence.
At least 400,000 people, or nearly 7 percent of the electorate, will be unable to cast their votes.
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