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Early results from Ivory Coast election show Ouattara ahead


    ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Initial results from Ivory Coast's weekend election showed incumbent President Alassane Ouattara with a commanding lead over his rivals, according to figures released by the elections commission on Tuesday.

    Ouattara won 85 percent of votes in Goh-Djiboua, the first of the West African nation's 31 regions to be announced by the commission on state television.

    (Reporting by Joe Bavier and Loucoumane Coulibaly; Editing by Emma Farge)