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The territory’s snap presidential election was won by close ally of Milorad Dodik, the former leader of the Serb-run region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who was barred from office for promoting separatist policies that were stoking ethnic tensions.

The election commission announced on Sunday that Sinisa Karan, who represents the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), had won the majority of the vote in the election, which was called for Dodik’s replacement as president after he was removed from office and permanently barred from politics for six years.

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Karan’s victory was described as “unquestionable,” according to Dodik, who spoke at the SNSD headquarters in Banja Luka, the head of the Bosnian Serb statelet Republika Srpska.

The international High Representative for Bosnia, who oversees the implementation of the 1995 Dayton Accords, which put an end to the bloody three-and-a-half-year Bosnian war, was found guilty of disobeying the orders of the dismissed leader in August.

In Republika Srpska, which is under the control of Bosnian Serbs, he had repeatedly clashed with High Representative Christian Schmidt, who ruled his actions unlawful.

Bosniaks, who are primarily Muslims, and Croats govern the other half of the nation. A central administration ties the two organizations together.

Dodik, who still supports the eventual separation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was fined and resigned as president while still leading his party’s ruling SNSD.

Following his ouster, Karan and Branko Blanusa, a university professor, squared off in the Serb Democratic Party’s snap election on Sunday.

Prior to the vote, Karan claimed that democratic elections “were a means of strengthening our Republic of Srpska and our entire republic” and that they were also “a means of strengthening our peace and stability.”

However, Karan’s victory was reportedly his victory, with Dodik indicating that he would continue to lead the charge and that “I will remain with you to fight for our political goals.”

The complex political structure of Bosnia was established 30 years ago by the US-brokered Dayton peace agreement, which put an end to the ethnic conflict that claimed more than 100 000 lives and left millions of people homeless.

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the opposition leader of Cameroon, has fled to The Gambia “for the purpose of ensuring his safety” following the recent presidential election, which saw the resumption of Paul Biya’s rule amid fierce protests.

In a statement released on Sunday, the Gambian government confirmed that it was holding Tchiroma “temporarily” there on “humanitarian grounds” while working toward a “peaceful and diplomatic resolution” to the country’s post-electoral tensions.

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Following the disputed election in October, The Gambia worked with regional partners like Nigeria to “support a peaceful and negotiated outcome,” according to the statement posted on the office of Gambian President Adama Barrow’s Facebook page.

Biya, the oldest head of state in the world, received 53.7 percent of the vote, compared to 35.2% for Tchiroma, a former government minister leading the Cameroon National Salvation Front, who received the results of official election results.

However, Tchiroma, who claimed voter tampering, claimed he was the real winner. He later claimed that this was a constitutional coup that was both flagrant and shameful. It was electoral theft.

The opposition leader repeatedly exhorted supporters to stage “dead city” protests by closing shops and halting other public events.

Despite the opposition and civil society organizations’ claims, the Cameroonian government has confirmed that at least five people were killed during the demonstrations.

Tchiroma has been accused of making repeated calls for insurrection by the government, which the government has stated it intends to bring.

Following a constitutional amendment that removed term limits in 2008, Biya came to power in 1982 after the first president of Cameroon resigned.

Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, claimed that while he was under house arrest for an attempted coup, he was “hallucinated” by a change in his medication.

The far-right former leader claimed that he had a “paranoia” in a soldering iron during a custody hearing on Sunday following his detention the day before the incident and that he had been detained the day before.

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Bolsonaro tried to find out what had happened in a wiretap in the ankle monitoring, according to Assistant Judge Luciana Sorrentino in a court filing that was made public shortly after the former president’s online interview. Bolsonaro claimed in a court document that he had “hallucinations” that he had “hallucinated” this.

Bolsonaro was under house arrest on suspicion of breaking the law, but he was taken into custody on Saturday after police claimed he had attempted to break the ankle tag, making him a potential flight risk. Bolsonaro is currently appealing his conviction for a botched military coup.

After receiving information at 12:08 am Saturday, at 03:08 GMT, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes determined that the tag had been violated.

Bolsonaro&nbsp, who denied trying to escape, claimed the episode was caused by a combination of medications that were prescribed by various doctors. He claimed that only four days before his detention on Saturday morning, he began taking one of them.

According to the court record, the witness claimed that he altered the ankle bracelet around midnight before “coming to terms with it” and stopped using the soldering iron, telling the officers in charge of his custody.

The attorneys for Bolsonaro claimed that the former president should remain under house arrest because of his poor health at the meeting on Sunday. Similar requests have previously been turned down by De Moraes.

After being defeated by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022, a panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in September that Bolsonaro attempted to hold onto the presidency and win back favor, and sentenced him to 27 years and three months in prison.

The pre-emptive arrest order will be decided on Monday by the same panel.