Mauritania election: free and fair? - FRANCE 24

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Mauritania election: free and fair?

General Abdelaziz, who overthrew Mauritania's first democratically elected leader in a coup last year, has won the presidential election. Opposition leaders protested immediately, accusing Abdelaziz of ballot-rigging. Is the election free and fair?

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