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Hakainde Hichilema slams Zambia's outgoing "brutal regime" at a press conference hours after winning a landslide victory in presidential elections. It was Hichilema's sixth bid for the top job and his third challenge to his bitter rival Edgar Lungu, after losing to Lungu by a wafer-thin 100,000-vote margin in 2016. SOUNDBITE
Zambia's veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema speaks to supporters after becoming president in his sixth bid for the top job. After a campaign dominated by the country's economic woes and marked by sporadic violence, Hichilema garnered 2,810,757 votes against 1,814,201 for President Edgar Lungu, according to nearly final results. SOUNDBITE
Zambian opposition presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema casts his ballot in a general election after a tense campaign dominated by economic woes, a debt crisis and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
Jose Raul Mulino is sworn in as President of Panama during a ceremony at the Atlapa Convention Center in the capital. Mulino has promised to stop the passage of migrants through the dangerous Darien Gap and to revive the Panamanian economy dependent on the interoceanic canal. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI362A73T_EN
South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second full term as president at a ceremony in Pretoria, after his weakened African National Congress (ANC) struck a government coalition deal. IMAGES TO GO WITH 34XJ66Z