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Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected as president after beating opposition candidate, Soumaila Cisse, in a run-off vote. The Ministry of Territorial Administration on Thursday declared Keita the winner of the repeat poll held on Sunday with 67 percent of ballots cast. Cisse, a former finance minister, who also ran against Keita in 2013, secured 32 percent of the votes.

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