Koroma wins Sierra Leone election, takes office
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as Sierra Leone's president on Monday after winning polls marked by violence and some fraud, prompting celebrations and looting in which at least one man was killed.
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Democratic Republic of Congo's Supreme Court proclaimed Joseph Kabila president on Monday after throwing out a legal challenge to his election victory by rival Jean-Pierre Bemba.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday in  the 14th attempt in a decade to restore government to the  lawless African country.
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Joseph Kabila, seen here on December 1, has been sworn in as the first democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo at a colourful ceremony attended by thousands of guests and seen by ...Comment
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- A former rebel leader appeared headed to easy victory yesterday in the first elections in Aceh Province since the government and the separatists signed a peace deal in the tsunami-ravaged region last year.
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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.
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DR Congo's Supreme Court confirms Joseph Kabila as the winner of the country's presidential elections.
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Nairobi: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed won Somalia&#39;s presidential vote, an election official announced at a ballot designed to install the anarchic Horn of Africa&#39;s country&#39;s first recognised central government since 1991.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  -- President Mwai Kibaki took the oath of office Sunday minutes after being declared the winner of a vote marred by allegations of rigging, and the government swiftly suspended live television coverage as riots raged in the slums home to thousands of opposition supporters.
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The opposition All Peoples' Congress wins Sierra Leone's parliamentary polls, but faces a presidential run-off.
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Unofficial results from Cameroon's presidential election point to a huge victory for incumbent Paul Biya.
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Former rebel spokesman Irwandi Yusuf has won the first direct election for governor of Indonesia's Aceh province according to an unofficial quick count, the director of the local survey group that conducted the count has told AFP.
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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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Botswana&#39;s President-elect Festus Mogae was sworn in for a second and final term in office on Tuesday after his party won a huge victory in weekend parliamentary elections in the diamond-rich southern African country.
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Umaru Yar'Adua took office as president of Nigeria on Tuesday promising to tackle a catalogue of crises in Africa's most populous nation and conceding that his own election was "not perfect".
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Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa is officially declared the winner of last week's presidential election.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 30 -- As allegations of vote-rigging stoked protests and ethnically charged riots across this East African country Sunday, President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the closest presidential election in Kenya's history and swiftly sworn in for a second term.