Somalis to elect crucial post
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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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Voting starts in Namibia's presidential poll, which will elect a successor to veteran leader Sam Nujoma.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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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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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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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is set to  be elected Turkey&#39;s next president on Tuesday, the first time  in the secular but predominantly Muslim country&#39;s modern  history that the post will go to a former Islamist.
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Kenyans will vote on December 27 in what is shaping up to be a tight race pitting President Mwai Kibaki against opposition firebrand and current poll leader Raila Odinga for leadership of east Africa's biggest economy.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament began voting Sunday for a new interim president for the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in a stadium in neighboring Kenya.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday,  officials said, in the 14th attempt in a decade to restore  government to the lawless African country.
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MOGADISHU/LONDON  - Somalian President Abdullahi Yusuf said on Thursday he would hold a national reconciliation conference soon that would be open to all clans in the country, still racked by violence after a December war.
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Security was stepped up across the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday ahead of a major peace meeting seen as the interim government's best hope of strengthening its legitimacy in the Horn of Africa nation.
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Namibians will go to the polls Monday and Tuesday for elections to choose a successor to the country&#39;s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who is retiring after 14 years.
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Twenty-eight candidates seek support from MPs to be Somalia's new leader ahead of elections on 10 October.
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Indonesians vote in a landmark presidential election run-off on Monday and are expected to hand power to a former general who has vowed firmer leadership in fighting terrorism and boosting the economy.
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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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The Somali peace process is on theright track and a new government is expected to go back to Somaliaearly next year with an almost ready political program and main tasks clearly laid out, a senior Somali official said.
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Somalia&#39;s clan leaders gathered Sunday to choose their first president in more than a decade in an election that the international community hopes will