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"Having received 457,519 votes in the election, I hereby declare Adama Barrow duly elected to serve as president of the Republic of The Gambia," Gambia's Independent Electoral Commission Chairman Alieu Momarr Njai says in Banjul. SOUNDBITE
Gambia's President Adama Barrow holds the last rally of his re-election bid. Gambians will go to the polls to pick a president, in the West African country's first elections since ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile nearly five years ago. IMAGES
Gambians take to the streets to celebrate the inauguration of new President Adama Barrow after 22 years of Yahya Jammeh's iron-fisted rule. IMAGES
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, walk into the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas, where they join other presidential candidates who have been summoned. Venezuela's supreme court has summoned all candidates to a hearing following Maduro's request that it initiate a process to investigate and certify the election result. IMAGES
Following in the footsteps of Argentinian President Javier Milei, Israeli President Isaac Herzog is welcomed to the Elysee Palace by Emmanuel Macron, a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which he will attend under very tight security. IMAGES