Port Louis — Mauritanians voted on Saturday in a presidential runoff between a former technocrat and a veteran opposition leader, the last stage of returning civilian rule to the Islamic state bordering the Sahara.
The vote follows an inconclusive first round poll two weeks ago and seals a democratic handover by the army junta which seized control of the former French colony in a bloodless 2005 coup, the third military putsch since independence in 1960.
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