New Namibia president remains in Nujoma&#39;s shadow
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Hifikepunye Pohamba, elected the next president of Namibia according to official results on Sunday, spent most of his country&#39;s freedom struggle and all of its independence in the shadow of outgoing President Sam Nujoma.
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Joyce Mujuru, attends the ruling ZANU-PF party annual convention in Harare, Dec. 2. Mujuru, a longtime member of President Robert Mugabe&#39;s cabinet and a veteran of the 1970s guerrilla war against white minority
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Presidential elections take place in Ghana, with John Kufuor favourite to secure a second term.
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Queueing patiently for hours before polling stations opened, Namibians on Monday began voting for a successor to founding president Sam Nujoma, who stands down in March after 15 years in charge.
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The political balancing act that is at the heart of the country's unity is keeping it from finding new leadership
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South Africa's ANC said on Tuesday that newly elected leader Jacob Zuma would remain its candidate for state president in 2009 and expressed "grave misgivings" about corruption charges against him.
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He refused the offer of a rest in order to lead his players on the controversial visit to the crisis-torn nation. Vaughan and the 14-man squad are due to arrive in Namibia this morning for
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POLOKWANE, South Africa Dec. 18--Thousands of African National Congress activists lined up in the rain Tuesday morning to elect a r new leader: either incumbent President Thabo Mbeki or the man he fired in 2005 because of alleged corruption, former deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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Namibian voters are casting their ballots in the nation&#39;s presidential and parliamentary elections. In Windhoek, people started arriving at the polling stations as early as 5am today.
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Chinese president Hu Jintao brought his eight-nation African tour Monday to Namibia, a sparsely populated, mineral-rich desert country that hopes to benefit from an influx of Chinese investment and tourists.
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The west African state of Ghana is about to take its place in the international spotlight as hosts of the 26th African Nations Cup.
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The whereabouts of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who was arrested yesterday morning by men of the State Security Service (SSS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, remain unknown.
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Indonesia&#39;s new president has sworn in his cabinet, a day after his inauguration. But some of the names in the new administration have raised concerns among observers that politics might have won out over practicalities.
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Namibia&#39;s ruling party retained the presidency and its two-thirds majority in parliament in a landslide victory in last week&#39;s elections, officials said Sunday.
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Namibia&#39;s white farmers were braced for a Zimbabwe-style land grab after polls opened following the retirement of President Sam Nujoma.
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The ruling African National Congress struggled Friday to agree on a way to choose a candidate who is almost certain to become South Africa&#39;s next president.
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Preliminary results of Ghana&#39;s presidential elections showed that President John Kufuor of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was leading against his main challenger John Atta Mills.