S Leone opposition maintains lead
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma remains ahead in Sierra Leone's presidential election run-off.
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Britain's governing Labour Party is maintaining a narrow but consistent lead over the main opposition Conservatives, according to an opinion poll published on Friday in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
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Campaigning began in Sierra Leone on Saturday for a presidential election run-off on September 8 between main opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma and Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).
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AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Aperte le urne per il secondo turno delle elezioni presidenziali. I Vescovi: ÂNo alla violenza. Operiamo per lÂunitÃ  e la concordiaÂ Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- Si sono aperti i seggi per il secondo turno delle elezioni presidenziali in Sierra Leone (vedi Fides 7 settembre 2007). Sono 2 milioni e 600mila i sierraleonesi chiamati al voto distribuiti su 6.150 seggi. Il primo turno si ...
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Nigeria's main opposition parties say they will still field their election candidates accused of corruption.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai maintained his lead over the main opposition candidate Yunus Qanooni in early results from the Oct. 9 presidential election, according to the election Web site.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Battle-weary citizens chose an opposition leader as their next president, voting against the party that ushered the country out of a devastating war in 2002 and for the promise of less corruption and more jobs.
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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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Kenyan election officials were counting votes Friday as results continued to trickle in from the provinces in the country's tight presidential and legislative race.
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Populist opposition leader Michael Sata   took a "commanding" early lead in Zambia's tight national   elections, a state-owned newspaper said on Friday.
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East Timor&#39;s ruling Fretilin party kept a slight lead Tuesday with about half the votes counted after weekend legislative elections in the troubled young nation, the official tally showed.
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Kenya's opposition leader takes a strong early lead as voters turn on political old guard
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The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
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A new poll shows President Megawati  Sukarnoputri has made up some ground in the Indonesian  presidential race, but her challenger still has a commanding  lead just a few days out from the vote.
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With almost 70 percent of the vote counted in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, interim President Hamid Karzai appears to be holding on to his solid lead in the race.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma won Sierra Leone's presidential election after a run-off vote marked by tensions and some ballot fraud in the war-scarred West African state, electoral officials said on Monday.
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Zambian opposition hopes jumped on   Friday following the copper-rich country's tightly fought   presidential race as one government-owned newspaper forecast a   major victory for populist challenger Michael Sata.