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Presidential candidates' posters are stuck to used tyres at a roundabout in Accra on December 28, 2008. Ghanaians who turned out to choose a successor to John Kufuor appeared to have heeded the outgoing president's calls for calm in elections watched closely elsewhere in Africa and further afield. Nana Akufo-Addo of Kufuor's New Patriotic Party (NPP) is squaring off against John Atta-Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of ex-president Jerry Rawlings. The vote was forced into a run-off after neither of the leading candidates won more than 50 percent of ballots cast in the first round on December 7. The elections are only the third since the country's return to democracy in 1992. AFP PHOTO PIUS (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)