Guyana President Irfaan AliNewsGuyana’s President, Irfaan Ali, has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday’s general election are yet to be published. Ali’s People’s Progressive Party (PPP) secured at least 242,000 votes in the poll, claiming majorities in eight of the 10 districts in the South American country, according to Reuters news agency. Ali, 45, campaigned on a pledge to use the country’s vast oil reserves, discovered in 2019, to improve infrastructure and reduce poverty, while navigating territorial tensions with neighbour Venezuela. Much of this election centred on how parties would manage revenues from massive oil reserves discovered by the oil giant ExxonMobil in 2019. The election came the day after Guyanese police said that a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was “shot at from the Venezuelan shore” – in the contested Essequibo region.