Somalia Parliament Voting on President
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Hussein Aideed , front right, son former Somali warlordMohammed Farah Aideed smiles, Thursday, Oct 7, 2004 during a debate of Somali presidential candidates ahead of Sunday&#39;s presidential elections in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, leader of the Barod clan, one of the four major clans of Somalia, was elected president of Somalia, parliament speaker Shariff Hassan Shek Adan announced here Sunday.
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The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
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Somali MPs elect an ex-warlord as speaker after sacking his predecessor for wanting talks with Islamists.
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Lack of funds rather than insecurity has prevented Somalia's parliament from moving to the capital Mogadishu, where a curfew has been imposed amid a deepening insurgency, a senior official said on Saturday.
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Yemenis voted on Wednesday in elections   that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to   win despite a challenge from a former minister.
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Turkish MPs are expected to elect a controversial former Islamist, Abdullah Gul, as president of the republic.
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A former soldier, rebel and warlord was sworn in Thursday as the new president of Somalia in the latest attempt to unite the nation under a central government for the first time since 1991.
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In an old grain warehouse spruced up with posters and vinyl flooring, Somalia&#039;s president and prime minister watched the swearing in of a regional governor this week, an event that looked like a small step toward government control of this anarchic country.
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The newly inaugurated Somali parliament is due to elect the speaker of the transitional assembly later on Wednesday. Twelve members of parliament have expressed interest in the position.
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Somalia's interim government and rival Islamists are to begin key talks on the country's future.
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Somali presidential candidate Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed, left, stands next to an unidentified election official, just after he had taken an oath on the Quran to abide by the election results, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004
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Pakistanis fearful of militant attacks voted Monday for a new parliament in a key step toward democracy after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf, whose political survival hangs in the balance.
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NAIROBI, Oct. 10 -- Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament on Sunday elected Abdullahi Yusuf, a former army colonel, as interim president of the war-torn nation in the Horn of Africa, the parliament speaker said.
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Uganda's parliament voted on Tuesday to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia to help stem an unrelenting wave of hit and run attacks by insurgents on the interim government in Mogadishu.
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Somalia's new prime minister may by reappointed, and then put to a vote of confidence, officials say.
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Israel's parliament votes on a president, with veteran politician Shimon Peres hoping finally to capture the post.