TANZANIA:  Samia Suluhu Hassan, the President of Tanzania has wished neighbouring Kenyans peaceful general elections as they went to the polls to vote for their leaders.

"I am praying the Almighty God be with you, Kenyans,  as you fulfill your constitutional right of getting leaders of your choice in a peaceful environment,  harmony, unity and solidarity," she said in her official tweet on Tuesday. "Wishing you all the best!" President Hassan was inspecting the Njombe region in the country's southern highlands on Tuesday,  the reports reads.

With as many as 46,230 polling booths nationwide on Tuesday, millions of Kenyan voters cast their ballots to choose the nation's fifth President, members of the National Assembly, senators, and county governors.

In his ancestral Sugoi village in the northwest county of Uasin Gishu, William Ruto, Kenya's current deputy president and presidential candidate running under the Kenya Kwanza (Kenya First) Alliance, cast his vote at six in the morning on Tuesday.

After months of contentious campaigns, Ruto declared he would respect the results shortly after casting his ballot.

Along with three other candidates, Raila Odinga, a seasoned leader of the opposition, is Ruto's main challenger in the race for the presidency. Raila is a member of the Azimio La Umoja (Resolution for Unity) One Kenya Coalition. Later on Tuesday, Odinga cast his vote at a voting place in Nairobi, the nation's capital.

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