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Vote counting starts in Benin after polls closet at 4pm local time (1500 GMT) in presidential elections. President Patrice Talon, cotton tycoon first elected to lead the West African nation in 2016, faces two little-known rivals, Alassane Soumanou and Corentin Kohoue in Sunday's vote. IMAGES
Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Nov 1 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Legnan Koula).- Ivory Coast held a tense presidential election on Saturday amid violence threat and a boycott by the opposition, which assures that a dozen people dead on the election day. FOOTAGE OF VOTE COUNTING IN ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST.
Polls have closed and the vote counting begins in polling stations in the Senegalese capital. Volunteers open up sealed ballot boxes and start counting the ballot papers from the first round of the country's presidential election. IMAGES
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Espoo as Finland elects its president. Some 4.3 million voters will have to choose between former conservative prime minister Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, a Green Party MP running as an independent. The changing geopolitical landscape in Europe will be the main concern for the new head of state, who will lead the country's foreign policy together with the government and act as supreme commander of Finland's armed forces. IMAGES
Electoral agents begin counting voters' ballots after polls closed for the first round of highly contested presidential elections in Madagascar. The elections were boycotted by most opposition candidates and appear to have resulted in a very low turnout. Tensions have been high between incumbent President Andry Rajoelina and opposition candidates. IMAGES