New Sierra Leone leader faces pressure to deliver
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Fresh from a bruising campaign that saw him barred from part of his own country, Sierra Leone's new President Ernest Bai Koroma must turn an ambitious manifesto into reality and his campaign machine into a government.
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Guinea's president has agreed to appoint a new prime minister amenable to the West African country's powerful union chiefs in an attempt to end a crippling strike and simmering unrest that has killed scores of people this year.
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Major challenges confront the new head of the American Red Cross, ranging from blood-safety violations and a budget deficit to disaster-response flaws exposed by Hurricane Katrina.
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A recent escalation in violence presents a major challenge to Thailand's new government, which took office last week. Military and political measures imposed by previous governments had little success in curbing the violence
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 17 -- Africa's iconic liberation movement this week is facing urgent new demands from its own members to display the same principles of open, accountable rule that it long demanded of the apartheid state.
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members of old elites vowing a rough ride for the country&#39;s first directly elected president. am British time) on Wednesday, with some squabbles breaking out over posts in the cabinet.
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A jailed Fatah chief has put a major crimp in hopes for a smooth transition of power in the wake of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was sworn in yesterday, pledging to be a humble "servant-leader" and to reform the electoral process to prevent future fraud, after the elections he won last month were widely condemned by international and local observers.
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Congo's newly elected national assembly was installed Friday and party leaders began jockeying for power in the divided group, while a key politician threw his support behind President Joseph Kabila.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Battle-weary citizens chose an opposition leader as their next president, voting against the party that ushered the country out of a devastating war in 2002 and for the promise of less corruption and more jobs.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is preparing for a gruelling trip to Africa just days after undergoing heart treatment.
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Joseph Kabila will be sworn in on Wednesday as Congo's first freely elected president in more than four decades, but he faces a mammoth task to satisfy popular expectations after years of war, dictatorship and chaos.
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Indonesia&#39;s president-elect, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, faces a task that&#39;s as unpleasant as it is necessary. Sometime soon after his inauguration next week, he&#39;ll have to risk popular backlash and raise fuel prices.
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Voters in Ghana queued on Tuesday to choose a new leader for their West African country in what was expected to be a race between incumbent John Kufuor and long-standing rival John Atta Mills.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The appointment of a close ally of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as the country&#39;s new prime minister has been criticized as showing the &quot;rule of oppression.
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Newly elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faces immense challenges -- from fixing the economy to stopping religious and separatist conflicts and dealing with al Qaeda linked militants.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma holds a commanding lead in Sierra Leone's presidential runoff with three-quarters of the vote counted.