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 OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - President Blaise Compaore, who has ruled this West African country for nearly two decades, faced a divided opposition that claimed he should not have been allowed to run for a third term in elections Sunday.
People lined up outside schools in the capital Ouagadougou, some seeking shade under trees from the scorching sun, to vote in the race that Compaore, 54, is expected to win, continuing his rule over one of the world's poorest countries.
Compaore came to power in a 1987 coup and then won two subsequent presidential elections for seven-year terms in 1991 and 1998, winning a 87.5 percent in the vote seven years ago. The 1991 vote, the nation's first multiparty presidential election, was marred by widespread violence.
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