Burkina Faso: Compaore wins new mandate in country’s first multiparty race

After 18 years at the helm of Burkina Faso, President Blaise Compaore has won a new five-year term, garnering a massive 80.3 percent of the vote in the country’s first multiparty presidential race. Releasing the results of the 13 November poll, the head of the Independent National Election Commission, Moussa Michel Tapsoba, said that the closest runner-up, opposition leader Benewende Stanislas Sankara, won 4.94 percent of the vote.