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Municipalities in South Africa. More than 99% of the ballots were stripped. The results will be announced tomorrow, after verification of nearly 200 challenges. But the trends are clear: the ANC is back in history, barely passing the 30% mark. With 24.6%, the Democratic Alliance of Geordin Hill-Lewis, the mayor of Cape Town, is the country's second largest political force.
On Thursday, General Assimi Goïta made a visit to Niger and Burkina Faso, the official purpose of the visit was to strengthen the fight against terrorism in the common space of the three countries gathered within the Alliance of Sahel States.
The African National Congress (ANC), head of South Africa since 1994, is heading towards the worst electoral result in its history, indicating the scores after counting half of the municipal elections on Thursday late in the day. Just over one out of every two South African voters moved on Wednesday to vote in the municipalities, the election commission announced.
