Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani said Wednesday he would run for a second term in presidential elections due in June.
Ghazouani, 67, has been at the helm of the vast West Africa n country since 2019 and provided stability in the Sahel region, which faces rising jihadism.
Last year, his El Insaf party won a landslide victory in legislative elections -- taking 107 of the 176 seats in the National Assembly, well ahead of the Islamist party Tewassoul, which won 11 seats.
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