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Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been re-elected to office after winning 56.12% of the vote, provisional results showed. His main rival, Biram Dah Abeid, an anti-slavery human rights activist, came in second place after winning 22% of the vote, while Hamadi Sidi Mokhtar of the Islamist Tawasul Party, got 12.76%. Elections were held on Saturday in Mauritania, a former French colony in north-west Africa. Results were announced late Sunday after 99% of the votes were counted. Before the announcement, Abeid alleged there was fraud, and riot police dispersed his supporters demonstr…

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