New Sierra Leone leader faces pressure to deliver
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Fresh from a bruising campaign that saw him barred from part of his own country, Sierra Leone's new President Ernest Bai Koroma must turn an ambitious manifesto into reality and his campaign machine into a government.
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LONDON, Aug 28 (IPS) - A new push to reproductive health services planned   at a London conference next week will have to work in Sierra  Leone if  anywhere.
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It was no simple matter, in the midst of mob demonstrations and machete attacks on foreigners in Ivory Coast last week, for a Westerner to keep an appointment with President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Elections in the next few weeks  will bring new faces and new hope to a clutch of African  countries, but many of the poor, war-damaged continent's  nascent democracies face major hurdles in the coming year.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma holds a commanding lead in Sierra Leone's presidential runoff with three-quarters of the vote counted.
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PALESTINIAN leaders stepping into the power vacuum left by the death of Yasser Arafat face one of the most daunting challenges in their people&#39;s troubled history.
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The president is facing intense pressure to adjust an Iraq strategy that most experts conclude is failing.
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David Cameron, the media-savvy leader of the Tory party, is under pressure to prove he has grit as well as gloss as he gives a speech on day one of his first party conference in charge.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed in his inaugural address Tuesday to work urgently to quell rising violence in the volatile Niger Delta, a major source of oil exports to the United States.
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Lebanonâs efforts to select a new president are already facing fresh setbacks. But with a deadline looming, lawmakers risk even deeper chaos if they fail to make a choice.
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The challenge is clear and the opportunity is there. It is now up to our new prime minister to show that the modern corporate mind can deliver on the national public policy objectives of a poor country.
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New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua will urgently address the crisis in the oil-producing Niger Delta, he said in an inaugural address on Tuesday, appealing to armed groups in the region for an end to violence.
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Pressure mounted on Turkey yesterday to push ahead with far-ranging legal reforms, as the incoming European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said that Ankara has not yet done enough to start talks on EU membership.
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Sierra Leone's new president ask a new anti-corruption body to probe all former government ministers.
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Ukraine's new Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko will be facing pressure to produce results after her pro-Western fervor helped win her overwhelming endorsement by fellow lawmakers to head the government in this ex-Soviet republic hungry for change.
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Ernest Bai Koroma took oath Monday as Sierra Leone&#39;s new president after winning a tense runoff vote and vowed to wipe out graft and heal deep wounds in the impoverished war-scarred west African nation.
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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to  avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under  one federal government.