Incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali has won a landslide victory in the West African nation's presidential runoff election.
Official results announced Thursday reveled Keita won 67 percent of the vote from Sunday's second round, soundly beating challenger and opposition leader Soumaila Cisse. Turnout in the runoff vote was an abysmally low 34 percent, as voters stayed away due to threats of violence by jihadist militants.
The government stepped up security for Sunday's run-off, deploying 6,000 troops in addition to the 30,000 who already were on duty.
But despite the added security, a polling station president was killed in the northern Timbuktu region and the polling station there was burned.