Equatorial Guinea: Obiang Nguema 80, the world’s longest-ruling president seeks re-election to continue 43-year rule

Voters in Equatorial Guinea went to the polls on Sunday morning to elect their next president and representatives in both parliamentary chambers.
Polling centers across the country opened at 8 a.m. local time for more than 400,000 eligible voters expected to cast their votes. Voting closed at 6 p.m. local time.

Equatorial Guinea went to the polls, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo all-but certain of winning a record sixth term in the West African country with next to no opposition. Obiang, aged 80, has been in power for more than 43 years — the longest tenure of any living head of state today except for monarchs.