Electoral officials count ballots during the presidential and legislative election in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, November 29, 2015. REUTERS/Joe Penney -
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Roch Marc Kabore appeared to have a strong lead on Monday as results poured in from an election to choose the first new president in decades in Burkina Faso.
Provisional results from around 41 percent of the West African country's communes showed that Kabore had 54 percent of the vote against 29 percent for Zephirin Diabre, a former finance minister, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
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