Abkhazia votes in poll
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Abkhazia, a Black Sea region which has been trying to split from Georgia, votes in parliamentary elections.
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Tunis - Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was re-elected in presidential elections with 94,48 percent of the vote, according to official results published on Monday.
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Georgians voted Thursday in municipal elections seen as a crucial test for President Mikhail Saakashvili during a diplomatic crisis with Russia.
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Voters in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region go to the polls to elect a president.
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Congolese voted Sunday in their first democratic election in more than four decades, many hoping for an end to years of fighting and corrupt rule that have devastated the mineral-rich nation in the heart of Africa.
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Supporters of a candidate in a disputed  presidential election in the separatist Georgian region of  Abkhazia stormed government buildings on Friday, Russia's  Interfax news agency reported.
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The parliament of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region says the opposition candidate won presidential elections.
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Voting in the separatist Russian republic of Chechnya began amid tight security today in an election to replace Chechen President Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, who was assassinated in a bomb attack in May.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won the former Soviet republic's presidential election outright, an exit poll showed, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and called for mass protests on Sunday.
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Large numbers vote in a presidential poll in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Gaborone - Voters in Botswana, one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries, head to the polling stations on Saturday for a general election which is expected to see the party in power since independence in 1966, win victory and set in motion a leadership change
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GROZNY, Russia - Chechens battered by five years of war, terrorism and misery voted Sunday for a president in an election that the Russian government portrayed as step toward stability, though critics cried fraud in a ballot that appeared certain to put a Kremlin-favorite in office.    Little more than two hours after polls closed, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said preliminary results showed Maj...
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GROZNY, August 29 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Chechens Sunday, August 29, voted in an election to replace their slain pro-Moscow as another Kremlin-backed candidate was to win though seven others are standing in the race.
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Tension persisted in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, where the outgoing president Saturday accused the opposition candidate in last month's disputed presidential election of attempting a coup after his supporters occupied the government compound.
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Russians voted on Sunday in regional elections, testing the strength of two big pro-Kremlin parties ahead of nationwide parliamentary polls in December.
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Russia's war-torn republic of Chechnya votes in a presidential election to replace its slain pro-Moscow leader, amid fears of rebel raids.
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Former Soviet Georgia on Saturday voted in a presidential election expected to hand its pro-U.S. leader Mikhail Saakashvili a narrow win but opponents said they may take to the streets in protest.