Mauritania's opposition accused authorities in the West African nation on Saturday of rigging an election won by President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya and said it would challenge the result by all legal means.
Taya won two-thirds of the votes in Friday's poll while main challenger Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, the man he ousted in a coup to embark on his iron-fisted 19-year rule, was a distant second with 18.7 percent, official results showed.
During his campaign, Taya promised to deliver prosperity to Mauritania, where many hope offshore oil will bring riches to an impoverished desert nation straddling black and Arab Africa that has a patchy human rights record.
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