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 former army chief won just over 56% of the vote, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said July 1, giving him a...

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