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Guinea’s junta chief Mamady Doumbouya has been elected president with an overwhelming majority, according to provisional results released by the country’s election commission. Doumbouya had vowed not to seek office after seizing power four years ago. <\/em><\/p>\n Doumbouya, 41, secured just under 87 percent of the vote in the first round, comfortably above the threshold required to avoid a run-off, the General Directorate of Elections said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Turnout was put at almost 81 percent, a figure that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Guinea’s junta chief Mamady Doumbouya has been elected president with an overwhelming majority, according to provisional results released by the country’s election commission. Doumbouya had vowed not to seek office after seizing power four years ago. Doumbouya, 41, secured just under 87 percent of the vote in the first round, comfortably above the threshold required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651463:41f5f761ac6f19cad12c954cfcf106b9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,11087,40162,3119,4715,1124,28579,11322,7079,257,254,10099,6552],"class_list":["post-218774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversial","tag-doumbouya","tag-election","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-junta","tag-landslide","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victory","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651463:41f5f761ac6f19cad12c954cfcf106b9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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