Belgium and SA confident of upcoming DRC elections
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South Africa and Belgium have expressed confidence that elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will go ahead as planned in seven months time.
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Belgium's interim PM faces a vote of confidence as he seeks to end months of political paralysis.
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Parliamentary and municipal elections are being held Sunday across Cameroon, with longtime President Paul Biya's ruling party widely expected to dominate as it has for decades.
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South Africa's foreign minister said Tuesday she is satisfied that Zimbabwe is taking steps to ensure free and fair parliamentary elections &#151; even as the country's opposition leaders protest sweeping security measures, arrests and intimidation.
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Millions of Congolese voted in the country's first multiparty election in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for the tumultuous central Africa region that Congo anchors.
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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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The poll promises to be the main event in the 2005 political calendar in France and pollsters say Jacques Chirac, the president, has little chance of winning it without socialist support.
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The presidents of Congo and Rwanda could meet soon to calm renewed tensions between the neighboring countries, according to presidential aides.
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ABIDJAN  - South African President Thabo Mbeki was to meet his Ivory Coast counterpart Laurent Gbagbo, hoping to ease tensions after a weekend of violence that has evoked fears of a return to the conflict that has split the west African state for two
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The EU pledges more than $100 to help the Democratic Republic of Congo hold elections next year.
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Iraq's interim government voiced  confidence Monday that an election scheduled for Jan. 30 will  go ahead despite violence and intimidation in some areas and a  threat of a boycott by the once dominant Sunni minority.
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki says his government will carry on, despite suffering heavy losses in ANC party elections.
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Congo's head of elections conceded for  the first time Friday that elections in the vast mineral rich  country may be delayed beyond June, but insisted they must take  place before November.
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The African National  Congress (ANC) holds a hotly contested election on Monday that  could clear the way for the controversial Jacob Zuma to assume  South Africa's presidency.
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Cameroon's president says he is confident his ruling party will win Sunday's polls, amid opposition claims of fraud.
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The government expressed optimism Sunday that key elections in Northern Ireland this week could lead to the long-awaited return of power-sharing government in the troubled British province.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC on Monday overcame two days of wrangling to clear the way for a leadership election on Tuesday between President Thabo Mbeki and his bitter rival Jacob Zuma.