Elections Timetable – All Change
4 Apr 11
President Nazarbaev offers “lesson in democracy” by dropping plans to extend current term, but slips in an early election instead.
Disputed area of southern Sudan remains a potential flashpoint– but not because of its oil resources.
They may be far from home, but southern Sudanese living abroad relish opportunity to vote on the future of their homeland.
Referendum allowing President Nazarbaev to stay on without election would be bad for democracy, critics say.