With 10 percent of the ballots counted, Wade is estimated to have secured just 24 percent of the vote, with his nearest challenger out of a total of 13 candidates winning 21 percent.
The UN said people were continuing to flee the fighting, with an estimated 60,000 displaced internally and a further 69,000 seeking refuge in Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Algeria.
“An Al Qaeda commander was targeted in Lower Shabelle early on Friday morning, a missile struck and destroyed his vehicle, killing him and several colleagues,” a Somali government official told an international news agency.
In a letter to Liu Yingcai from South Sudan’s petroleum minister, Stephen Dhieu Dau, one of the reasons behind Liu’s expulsion was his decision to continue paying Sudan oil-transit fees using South Sudanese oil money without the government’s consent.
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