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GABON

Transitional leader Nguema wins election

Gabon's transitional leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has been elected president following Saturday's vote, the Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. Nguema secured 90.35 percent of the total votes cast in the election, Interior Minister Hermann Immongault said. Nguema has served as Gabon's transitional president since leading the 2023 coup that ousted former president Ali Bongo Ondimba. His main challenger, Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze, came in second with about 3.02 percent of the vote, according to the minister.

ECUADOR

Incumbent president Noboa reelected

Daniel Noboa, the incumbent president of Ecuador, was reelected in the second round of the presidential election held on Sunday for a four-year term, according to the initial results released by the National Electoral Council. Noboa gained 55.92 percent of the vote with 92.64 percent of ballots counted, while his opponent, the leftist Luisa Gonzalez earned 44.08 percent. Gonzalez said she does not recognize Noboa's electoral victory. "We are going to ask for a recount and for the polls to be opened," she said.

PERU

Nobel literature laureate Vargas Llosa dies at 89

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades, died on Sunday aged 89. A leading light in the 20th-century Latin American literature boom, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010 for works like Death in the Andes and The War of the End of the World. Peru declared a day of mourning for the author on Monday, with flags flying at half-mast on government premises.

Agencies - Xinhua