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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
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Zambia's newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema takes the oath of office before thousands of jubilant supporters in the Heroes Stadium in the capital Lusaka. In his sixth bid for the presidency, Hichilema defeated the incumbent Edgar Lungu by almost one million votes -- a landslide spurred by economic hardship and restricted freedoms under the previous regime. IMAGES
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