Burkina Faso votes amid threat of violence

By Edward McAllister
Updated November 23 2020 - 9:34am, first published 9:31am
Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore says the election is "about development, it's about peace".
Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore says the election is "about development, it's about peace".

Polls have closed in Burkina Faso after a presidential and parliamentary election dominated by the threat of Islamist violence that prevented voting in hundreds of villages.

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