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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
Supporters cheer and celebrate in Guatemala City as their candidate Bernardo Arevalo was swept to victory in Guatemala's presidential election. IMAGES
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
Supporters of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro cry and pray as Brazil's veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president by a hair's breadth, beating the incumbent in a down-to-the-wire poll that split the country in two. IMAGES
"The CNE proclaims, as President of the Republic of Angola, Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco," says commission head Manuel Pereira da Silva during a press conference. Official results indicate the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola won 51.17 percent of the ballots against 43.95 percent for the main challenger the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). SOUNDBITE
Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Monday declared winner of a hotly contested presidential election after capturing more than 2.8 million votes. "I therefore declare the said Hakainde Hichilema to be president-elect of the Republic of Zambia," electoral commission chairman Justice Esau Chulu said in a televised address. SOUNDBITE