Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won presidential elections in Burkina Faso, the electoral commission says.<\/p>\n
It says Mr Kabore, a former prime minister, secured 53.5% of the vote on Sunday.<\/p>\n
It was the first election since last year’s popular uprising which toppled longstanding President Blaise Compaore.<\/p>\n
The vote was due to have been held last month but was delayed by a failed coup in September led by members of the elite presidential guard.<\/p>\n
Mr. Compaore, 64, is now living in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n
Tight security<\/strong><\/p>\n The Independent National Electoral Commission says Mr Kabore, 58, won the elections outright, and there is no need to hold a second round.<\/p>\n It says his main rival, former Economy and Finance Minister Zephirin Diabre, gained 21.6% of the vote.<\/p>\n Mr Diabre has already congratulated Mr Kabore, according to the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n Mr Kabore served as chairman of the Congress for Democracy and Progress party (CDP) before leaving it in 2014, after opposing plans to extend Mr Compaore’s rule.<\/p>\n On Sunday, long queues were reported outside many polling stations.<\/p>\n Security was also raised, with up to 25,000 troops and police deployed across the country and foreign observers oversaw the poll.<\/p>\n The election was meant to mark the end of the transitional period following Mr Compaore’s removal.<\/p>\n Mr. Compaore was forced from office by street protests in October 2014 over his plans to serve another five-year term. He had been in power for 27 years.<\/p>\n A transitional government was installed but the country was thrown into turmoil again in September when members of the elite presidential guard led a short-lived coup. The attempt failed and the guard was disbanded. Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won presidential elections in Burkina Faso, the electoral commission says. It says Mr Kabore, a former prime minister, secured 53.5% of the vote on Sunday. It was the first election since last year’s popular uprising which toppled longstanding President Blaise Compaore. The vote was due to have been held last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":171006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-171005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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