Sao Tome votes as President da Costa runs for second term

Sao Tome and Principe voted in a presidential election on Sunday in which incumbent Manuel Pinto da Costa is looking to win a second term against four opponents including a former speaker of parliament. The small island nation located in the Gulf of Guinea is a former colony of Portugal and has a semi-presidential system in which the prime minister is the head of government. "Everything is proceeding normally," said Ambrose Quaresma, spokesman for the National Electoral Commission.