Masisi on Friday won a five-year term in Botswana’s elections securing BDP’s long dominance of power.
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The lopsided nature of partial results published could revive fears over the country’s fragile peace deal
The country voted in general polls on Tuesday after a campaign marked by violence and claims of electoral fraud
The last elections in December 2014 led to a coalition between Lepep (The People) and Jugnauth’s Socialist Militant Movement (MSM)
It would be “the first time in its history that the movement puts forward a candidate for the presidential elections”
Wine has long hinted he would throw his hat into the ring and take on incumbent and long-term President, Yoweri Museveni
Preliminary results released by the electoral commission gave the ruling Union for the Republic 895 of the 1490 seats
The country’s 3.4 million eligible voters are called to elect 1,527 municipal councillors to six-year terms, renewable twice, in 117 towns.
The election represented Mauritania’s first democratic transition of power since independence from France in 1960.
“We reject the results of the election and we consider that they in no way express the will of the Mauritanian people,”