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Belgium - A New Mayor

In 2018, the municipality of Ganshoren, North-West of Brussels, in Belgium, elected its first black Mayor in the country.  The new mayor is Pierre Kompany, seventy-one years old, and he was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Note:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/15/vincent-kompanys-father-elected-as-first-black-mayor-in-belgium

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