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A crowd gathers outside the Turkish Presidential Palace in Ankara ahead of the results of the country's historic presidential election. On Sunday voters cast their ballots in the second round runoff vote in what has been cast as the most important elections in generations. Incumbent president, and Turkey's longest-serving leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was closing in on victory as the polls closed. IMAGES
Final vote tallies for the Nigerian presidential election are announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the national collation centre in Abuja. IMAGES
Thousands of people in Lagos, await the arrival of Bola Tinubu, Nigerian presidential candidate of the ruling party (APC, for his final campaign rally days before the presidential elections on February 25. IMAGES
Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi arrives on stage at a rally in Lagos as Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that elections would go ahead as scheduled this month despite growing tensions around currency and fuel shortages. IMAGES
Former NATO general Petr Pavel reacts to the results of the second round of the presidential election, in a speech to a cheering crowd in Prague, Czech Republic. Pavel, a former paratrooper, won 56.76 percent of votes while former prime minister Andrej Babis scored 43.23 percent, with over 85 percent of the vote counted, according to the Czech Statistical Office. IMAGES
Malawi's electoral commission announces that opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has won this week's presidential election re-run with 58.57 percent of the vote, at a press conference in Blantyre. SOUNDBITE