Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in a landslide victory on Sunday’s heavily disputed run-off election retained leadership in Mali with 67.17% of the vote, official results show.
BBC reports that opposition candidate, Soumaila Cisse, who won 32.83% of the vote, said on Monday that he would reject the result as he believed the vote was marred by fraud. He said, “I call on all Malians to rise up… We will not accept the dictatorship of fraud.”
The report also confirms that ahead of the election announcement, internet access was barred from mobile phone networks in the city’s capital Bamako.
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