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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - Burkina Faso's constitutional court declared longtime ruler Blaise Compaore the official winner of presidential elections earlier this month, with a landslide 80 percent of the vote.
Compaore, a 54-year-old former army captain who rose to power in a bloody 1987 coup, was widely expected to win the Nov. 13 ballot, and provisional results released last week had given him the same unassailable lead.
Compaore faced 11 contenders for what is now a five-year presidential term. His strongest rival, Stanislas Benewende Sankara, won nearly 5 percent of the vote.
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