US election 2016: The fever spreads across the world
By : Uju Ochulo
Date:
8 November 2016 12:54pm WAT
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A woman hugs a cutout of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a public relations campaign put on by the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on November 7, 2016.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched into the frenzied final day of their historic fight for the White House on November 7, with blow-out rallies in the handful of swing states that will decide who leads the United States. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel Hayduk
A woman hugs a cutout of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a public relations campaign put on by the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on November 7, 2016.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched into the frenzied final day of their historic fight for the White House on November 7, with blow-out rallies in the handful of swing states that will decide who leads the United States. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel Hayduk
A woman hugs a cutout of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a public relations campaign put on by the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on November 7, 2016.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched into the frenzied final day of their historic fight for the White House on November 7, with blow-out rallies in the handful of swing states that will decide who leads the United States. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel Hayduk
Shamans perform a ritual of predictions for the upcoming US election with posters of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton at the Agua Dulce beach in Lima on November 7, 2016.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched into the frenzied final day of their historic fight for the White House Monday, with blow-out rallies in the handful of swing states that will decide who leads the United States. / AFP PHOTO / ERNESTO BENAVIDES
Indian organisers watch as fish named Chanakya swims to a portrait of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, (L), floating alongside a portrait of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a fish tank, during an event in Chennai on November 8, 2016.
A nervous world turned its gaze to America’s 200 million-strong electorate November 8, 2016 as it chooses whether to send the first female president or a populist property tycoon to the White House. / AFP PHOTO / ARUN SANKAR
A man holds a monkey sitting between cardboard cutouts of US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton before making a selection intended to predict the result of the US election, at a park in Changsha, in China’s Hunan province on November 3, 2016.
The monkey chose Republican candidate Donald Trump. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT
Indian devotees perform a prayer with a photograph of US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a temple in Varanasi on November 7, 2016, ahead of voting in the US Presidential elections.
Top musicians from Bruce Springsteen to Beyonce to Madonna are rallying behind Hillary Clinton in the countdown to the November 8 election, adding A-list star power to a massive get-out-the-vote operation. / AFP PHOTO / STR
People cast their vote into cardboard box urns during a mock ballot vote between US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Kenya’s lakeside town of Kisumu on November 08, 2016, in which Clinton emerged the winner.
Sentiment at the lakeside town and the country at large appeared to remain strong in favour of US’ Democratic party, whose outgoing President, Barack Obama is considered a son given his father’s Kenyan heritage, more so at Kogelo, about 60 kilomtres from Kisumu, the birthplace of his father, Obama Snr. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA
As Americans go to the polls to choose their next president today, the world watches. From the temples of India to the street of Tanzania, people are choosing sides, hoping for the anointed candidate to be declared the winner of an election that has polarised America.
In fact, clairvoyant animals are also picking the preferred sides.
