Voters in Burundi are heading to the polls amid a backdrop of surging inflation, fuel shortages and complaints of political repression.
Seats in the National Assembly, Senate and local councils are up for grabs but Évariste Ndayishimiye is safe in his role as president as he is serving a seven-year term that ends in 2027.
The elections will test the popularity of the governing CNDD-FDD party, a former rebel group which has been in power for the past 20 years.
The East African nation was already one of the world's poorest countries, but residents there have been put under further pressure by a recent spike in the price of goods such as food.