Nigerian party leader steps down
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The chairman of Nigeria's ruling party resigns following a bitter row with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- The Tanzanian prime minister has resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract between his office and a U.S.-based firm, he said on Thursday.
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Nigeria's ruling party says it will replace all of its election candidates accused of corruption by the anti-graft agency.
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Australia's Labor leader Mark Latham has announced his resignation as leader of the opposition, after only 13 months in the job, and his bowing out of public life, due to poor health.
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The leader of New Zealand's main opposition party, Don Brash, quits after weeks of mounting speculation.
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Jailed leader Marwan Barghouthi has  decided to quit the Palestinian presidential race, Al Jazeera  television reported on Sunday.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman resigns.
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The Turkish Cypriot minority government resigns after abandoning efforts to forge a new coalition.
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A MAJOR Sunni political party has quit the interim Iraqi Government in protest over the US assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, the party&#39;s leader said yesterday.
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African Union Chairman John Kufuor quit  Kenya on Thursday without a deal to end a political crisis that  has killed 500 people, leaving the president and opposition  leader accusing each other of wrecking talks.
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Tanzania's prime minister tenders his resignation after being implicated in an energy deal corruption scandal.
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Kostov said today he is stepping down because of disagreements with one of the ruling coalition&#39;s ethnic Albanian partners, the Albanian Union for Integration.
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The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bruce Gordon, is stepping down after 19 months at the nation's largest civil rights organization, the NAACP said on Sunday.
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The Thai opposition leader quits as Thaksin Shinawatra's party looks set to win enough votes to rule alone.
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The Bosnian Serb prime minister steps down after the US and Bosnia's top international envoy sanction officials.
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Ireland's deputy prime minister stunned party colleagues Thursday by announcing she was quitting as leader of the Progressive Democrats after 13 years in charge.
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The president of the governing Workers' Party said Friday he was stepping down in the wake of a corruption scandal that had battered Brazil's president during his re-election campaign.