Angola president casts vote
2008-09-05 12:05
Luanda - Angola President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Friday voted at a Luanda polling station in the country's first elections after a decades-long civil war.
Dos Santos, who heads the ruling leftwing Popular Movement for the Total Liberation of Angola (MPLA), did not speak after voting but made a V-sign to waiting cameras and photographers.
The MPLA is expected to win the elections in oil-rich Angola in which the party is pitted against the former rebel movement and main opposition party UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola).
Voting got under way on Friday morning in the white tents that serve as polling stations dotted across the capital Luanda. The normally congested roads were quiet on Friday as people waited in line to vote for the first time in 16 years.