With a clear majority, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, former head of the domestic security service, has won outright
With a clear majority of the votes, Ghazouani has won outright with no need for a second-round runoff election
Insurgents, some believed linked with terror suspect Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, unleashed attacks on Thursday on four cities across Iraq leaving more than 66 dead and 268 wounded in an apparently coordinated onslaught. The heaviest death toll of Thursday morning’s violence was in Baquba, northeast of the capital, where at least 20 Iraqis and two US soldiers were killed.