Nouakchott, Mauritania — AFP Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election at the helm of the vast desert nation, seen as a rock of relative stability in Africa’s volatile Sahel region, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said. The former army chief won just...
Nouakchott, Mauritania – AFP Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani was set to win re-election by a comfortable margin, results from the electoral commission showed, with an official proclamation due on Monday. Mauritanians went to the polls on Saturday to choose between seven candidates vying to lead the sprawling...
