Zambian panel says president won race
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LUSAKA, Zambia -- The nation's Electoral Commission said yesterday that President Levy Mwanawasa was reelected to a second term, collecting 43 percent of the votes cast in last week's balloting.
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Initial results from Botswana&#39;s election were delayed on Sunday but President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party has won the first seat and is seen as safe to win the overall poll in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - Left-wing populist Jacob Zuma has won the leadership of South Africa's ruling ANC, lining him up for the presidency of the country but creating deep uncertainty about his policies.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- A coalition backing President Joseph Kabila won Congo's first free parliamentary elections in more than 40 years but fell short of an overall majority, electoral authorities said yesterday.
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Zambian elections officials are counting the votes cast after a closely contested presidential election.
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A court rules that Zambia's ex-President Frederick Chiluba is not too ill to stand trial for corruption in Zambia.
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The results of Zambia's elections are due to be announced, after being delayed by Sunday's violence.
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As expected, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) headed by President Festus Mogae won the elections, winning 29 of the 57 seats up for election, giving Mogae a second five-year term in office.
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Morgan Tsvangirai, left, Zimbabwe&#39;s Movement For Democratic Change President, toasts his verdict with party vice president Gibson Sabanda at his home in Harare, Friday, Oct.15, 2004.
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Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali won a landslide victory over three rivals in the presidential elections, officials said Monday.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade comfortably won a second term in Sunday's election, results showed on Thursday, and he warned opposition leaders they could now face corruption probes suspended during the poll campaign.
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Zambian opposition hopes jumped on   Friday following the copper-rich country's tightly fought   presidential race as one government-owned newspaper forecast a   major victory for populist challenger Michael Sata.
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Senegal's president appeared to have won the country's election outright Wednesday, according to nearly complete results released by regional vote-counting centers and reported by the state-run news agency.
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Zambia went to the polls on Thursday to   elect a new president after a razor-tight race pitting the   internationally respected incumbent against a fiery populist   who has promised to give impoverished Zambians a bigger share   of their nation's copper riches.
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Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa is formally declared the election winner but the result is disputed.
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The incumbent Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has emerged as the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election marred by irregularities, head of the joint UN-Afghan election commission announced here Wednesday.
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President Hamid Karzai was formally announced the winner of the Oct. 9 presidential election by Afghanistan&#39;s electoral board this afternoon after an international