Kenyatta wins Moi party election
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The son of Kenya's first president wins the battle for control of the former ruling party, Kanu, amid claims of fraud.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas won election  as Palestinian president by a landslide on Sunday, securing a  strong mandate to talk peace with Israel after years of  bloodshed and to end corruption at home.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party won a majority of seats in elections for Egypt's upper house of parliament, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.
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PRO-WEST opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has won the re-run of Ukraine&#39;s rigged presidential election, polling officials said last night.
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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko claimed victory on Monday in a re-run of Ukraine's rigged presidential election.
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Interim President Hamid Karzai has won Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, the spokesman for the election commission said.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 30 (IPS) - Just one day after Kenya's bitterly disputed  presidential election took place in December, Nairobi received an  aid payment worth nearly 41 million euros (60.5 million dollars)  from the European Union.
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The Kenya High Court reinstates Uhuru Kenyatta as the chairman of the country's oldest party, Kanu.
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Ex-Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi comes out in support of his successor Mwai Kibaki's re-election bid.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma win's Sierra Leone's presidential election run-off.
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DR Congo's Supreme Court confirms Joseph Kabila as the winner of the country's presidential elections.
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Kenya's ruling party and oppositionhave made a breakthrough on talks to end the post-poll crisis, officials say.
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President Mwai Kibaki has beaten opposition rival Raila Odinga by a narrow margin to win re-election in Kenya's closest ever vote, the head of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) said on Sunday.