Senegal is to hold a second round of presidential elections after incumbent Abdoulaye Wade failed to win outright, election officials confirmed late Wednesday.
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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