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Gambians Await Presidential Result In Test For Young Democracy

Gambians were waiting Sunday to find out the winner of the first presidential election in the West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile, IgbereTV reports.

Results from only around 15 of the country’s 53 electoral districts have so far been published online by the state broadcaster since polls closed at 1700 GMT Saturday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, an electoral commission official told AFP that results would be published district-by-district, with the commission announcing the winner at the end.

He expected that the count would be finished on Sunday and the result announced by the commission’s president

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