In the West African nation since former leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile, Gambians began voting on Saturday in the first presidential election.
The voting will be closely watched as a test of the democratic transition in The Gambia, where Jammeh ruled for 22 years after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994.
The ex-autocrat was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after Adama Barrow, then a relative unknown defeated him at the ballot box.
President Barrow, 56, is now running for re-election and faces five other candidates.
Polls opened at 8 am (0800 GMT), with long lines forming well before dawn in the capital Banjul.
Nearly 500 people lined up around the block at a market in the Banjul neighborhood of Manjai Kunda, ready for hours of waiting. (AN)
