OUAGADOUGOU - Hundreds of thousands of voters in Burkina Faso were unable to cast ballots in Sunday's general election due to security threats, officials said, as the West African nation grapples with a growing Islamist insurgency.
The Electoral Commission reported that a"certain number" of polling stations for the presidential vote had been closed after threats were made against them. The security crisis - inflamed by the presence of the regional offshoots of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group - dominated the campaign in the landlocked West African country, one of the world's poorest.
On Sunday morning, after voting in his district of Ouagadougou, Mr Kabore rejected opposition accusations of fraud at the ballot box.But political scientist Drissa Traore said Mr Kabore remains"the big favourite against an opposition which has not managed to unite behind a single candidate". Mr Diabre told reporters on Saturday that"there is a huge operation orchestrated by those in power to carry out a massive fraud" so as to give Mr Kabore a first-round victory.
Campaigning and bloodshed The campaigning ran alongside continued bloodshed and the fear of Islamist attacks on voting day was high.
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