LUSAKA, Zambia ? Zambia's incumbent President Rupiah Banda is conceding defeat at the hands of veteran opposition leader Michael Sata.
Banda said in an address Friday on national television and radio that all Zambians must unite following this week's presidential election.
He said: "Zambia must not go backward. We must all face the future and go forward as one nation."
Sata's victory in Zambia ends 20 years in power by Banda's Movement for Multiparty Democracy.
Sata had run for president three times previously ? and lost the last time by just 35,000 votes.
During his most recent campaign, he toned down his criticism of massive Chinese investment in the copper-rich southern African nation.
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