
Download Noisy and colorful campaigns have filled the streets of the East Timorese capital Dili as the country gears up for presidential election.
Racked by political violence in the country’s first election in 2006, this year’s elections will prove an important test for political stability in the new and impoverished nation.
With high rates of unemployment, low levels of education, and thousands of Timorese joining martial arts gangs, analysts say these groups are ticking time bomb waiting to go off.
Kate Lamb investigates from Dili.













