Rights group: Equatorial Guinea vote marred (AP)

JOHANNESBURG ? A human rights group is criticizing a weekend referendum in Equatorial Guinea that now will allow the country's strongman leader to seek two more terms.

Voters in the tiny oil-rich West African nation went to the polls Sunday to vote on proposed constitutional changes. The government says that with 60 percent of the votes tallied, 99 percent of the voters backed the referendum.

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who is Africa's longest-serving strongman, can now seek two additional seven-year terms. He already has been in office for 32 years.

U.S.-based rights group EG Justice said Monday that voters had complained of intimidation, fraud, stuffed ballot boxes and armed military personnel inside voting stations.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111114/ap_on_re_af/af_equatorial_guinea

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