Benin has a new President, Romuald Wadagni. He won the just concluded Presidential elections with a landslide 94% of the vote.

Voter turnout across the country was 58.75%.

Romuald Wadagni 49, was handpicked as successor to outgoing President Patrice Talon, who was barred from running again after two terms in office.

The main opposition party, the Democrats, failed to get its own candidate on to the ballot paper.

This left Paul Hounkpè as the sole challenger – he conceded the election earlier on Monday as votes were still being counted.

According to Benin laws Presidential candidates must get formal endorsements from lawmakers in order to run.

Benin with a population of 15 million, is one of West Africa’s more stable democracies, in a region where several military coups have happened in recent years.

Romuald Wadagni as new leader will have to deal with worsening insecurity and chronic poverty, especially in the country’s north.

In April last year, Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group JNIM killed 54 soldiers.

The deteriorating security situation was one of the main reasons soldiers cited for attempting a coup four months ago.