Tanzania poll: Will it be Magufuli or Lowassa?

A group of Kenyan youths living at the border with Tanzania at Isebania in Migori County show their Tanzanian voting cards before casting their votes. Kenyans and Tanzanians living at the border have dual citizenship. [Photo: Reuters]

Millions of Tanzanians braved the early morning cold and afternoon heat to cast their votes in one of the most important elections in the country’s history.

From early morning, there were long queues of men, women and youth in various parts of the country and in the capital, Dar es Salaam, eager to cast their ballots in an election that has been touted as too close to call.