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Vaz wins Guinea-Bissau presidential run-off: elections commission
BISSAU (Reuters) – Jose Mario Vaz won Sunday’s high-stakes presidential run-off election in Guinea-Bissau, the West African nation’s elections commission said on Tuesday.
