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Somaliland opposition leader wins presidential election

Somaliland opposition leader Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi wins presidential election. [AFP]

Somaliland's leader of the opposition has won the breakaway region's presidency, the election commission said Tuesday, in a result rejecting the establishment and calling for change.

Some 1.2 million people were registered to vote on November 13, in an election that international observers hailed as a display of Somaliland's peaceful democracy.

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