{"id":52096,"date":"2019-11-26T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T04:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52096"},"modified":"2019-11-26T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T04:02:59","slug":"guinea-bissau-awaits-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52096","title":{"rendered":"Guinea Bissau awaits election results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/s3\/files\/styles\/269x177\/s3\/2019-11\/afp_Guinea-Bissau.jpg?itok=QIzG3kP1\" alt=\"Election officials start counting votes at a polling station in the Bairro Militar area of the capital Bissau, in Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 24, 2019.\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Vote counting begins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BISSAU, Nov 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Votes are being counted in Guinea Bissau&#8217;s presidential election, with the incumbent Jose Mario Vaz facing stiff competition after five years of political and economic turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 12 candidates are running, with a former Prime Minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira, emerging as a front-runner. Guinea Bissau has had seven prime ministers in the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has had multiple coups since independence in 1974 and is used as a transit point for Latin American drugs bound for Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results are expected on Thursday, If no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes a run-off will be held on Dec 29. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote counting begins BISSAU, Nov 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Votes are being counted in Guinea Bissau&#8217;s presidential election, with the incumbent Jose Mario Vaz facing stiff competition after five years of political and economic turmoil. A total of 12 candidates are running, with a former Prime Minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira, emerging as a front-runner. Guinea Bissau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}