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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
Counting begins in Chad's presidential election at a polling station near the HQ of candidate Succes Masra (number 7) in the Abena district of the capital N'Djamena. Masra is the main rival of junta leader and transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, whose family has ruled the country for three decades. IMAGES
General Mahamat Idriss Deby, head of the Chadian junta, votes at a polling station in N'djamena. The presidential election marks an end of a three year military rule, with an unprecedented match between Deby and his prime minister, Succes Masra, the former opponent of his regime. IMAGES
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