President leads in Botswana poll
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Botswana President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party leads in early results on Sunday with the opposition split -- and is seen as a safe bet to win overall in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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Kenya's opposition hopeful held his lead over President Mwai Kibaki in two final opinion polls released on Thursday a week before an election some fear could provoke trouble in one of Africa's most mature democracies.
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Botswana&#39;s ruling party has won by a landslide in Saturday&#39;s general elections, assuring President Festus Mogae of a second and final term in office.
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Unofficial exit polling showed opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko taking a commanding lead Sunday over Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine's repeat presidential election.
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All three exit polls tracking yesterday&#39;s presidential election gave opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko a commanding lead of at least 15 percentage points in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva's commanding lead over his main rival in Brazil's   presidential race expanded slightly over the past week, a poll   showed on Tuesday.
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Local hero Sibusiso Zuma scored a late winner as South Africa edged Botswana 2-1 on Wednesday in a warm-up for the African Nations Cup in Ghana which begins on Sunday.
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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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The power dynamics in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have taken a major shift following Saturday&#39;s national election.
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Supporters cheer Botswana's President Festus Mogae in the last day of campaigning before Saturday's parliamentary polls.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC on Tuesday began voting in a leadership election expected to be won by Jacob Zuma and put him on track to become the country's president in 2009.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki is ahead in the presidential election with 45 percent, versus 41.2 for opposition leader Raila Odinga, according to an exit poll by a local independent election observer group.
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Incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes an early lead after polls close in Brazil's presidential race.
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MOSCOW, Jan 7 (IPS) - Mikheil Saakashvili has been elected to a second  term of presidency amid electoral disputes. He leads with 55.23  percent of the vote, followed by opposition candidate Levan  Gachechiladze with 23.86 percent.
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GABORONE  - Queues of voters in diamond-rich Botswana waited patiently to cast their ballots in elections that are expected to hand victory to the party in power since independence in 1966 in one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da   Silva's commanding lead over his main rival in Brazil's   presidential race narrowed by 4 percentage points in the past   five days, a poll showed on Friday.
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President Joseph Kabila's lead Saturday in Congo's historic presidential election was below the majority needed to avoid a runoff, a day before the deadline for a preliminary tally of votes.