Yemeni Leader Reelected; Critics Allege Fraud
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SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was reelected with more than 77 percent of votes in the face of the strongest challenge since he came to power 28 years ago, officials said Saturday. Supporters of Faisal bin Shamlan, who had a substantial popular following, alleged fraud and...
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Tunis - Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was re-elected in presidential elections with 94,48 percent of the vote, according to official results published on Monday.
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A key figure in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 is freed by Yemen after swearing loyalty to the president.
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MOSCOW, Jan 14 (IPS) - Leading opposition candidate Levan Gachechiladze  has accused the Georgian government of widespread fraud in the  last presidential election after the Central Election Commission  released the final results declaring Mikheil Saakashvikli winner  and new president.
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A coalition of largely Shiite parties tacitly backed by the country's most influential religious leader won the largest number of votes in election results released Sunday, but fell short of the majority that many of its leaders had expected.
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President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner amid riots in Kenyaâs slums and evidence of election mischief.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade comfortably won a second term in Sunday's election, results showed on Thursday, and he warned opposition leaders they could now face corruption probes suspended during the poll campaign.
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Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever presidential election Wednesday, after a three-week probe into vote fraud found no grounds to invalidate his triumph.
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Allegations of fraud marred legislative elections in Cameroon on Sunday amid opposition claims President Paul Biya was trying to preserve his stranglehold over the west African nation at any cost.
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The pro-West president called Saturday's snap polls after beingcriticized for authoritarianism. With early results giving him 48 percent ofthe vote, opponents protest fraud.
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A tribunal on Monday upheld President Olusegun Obasanjo's victory last year in Nigeria's first-ever civilian-run election, saying some balloting fraud had occurred but that the graft did not change the outcome of the vote.
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The Kremlinâs favoured candidate for president of war-battered Chechnya overwhelmingly won an election that opponents claimed was riddled with fraud, Russian news agencies reported today.
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The candidate of Namibia's ruling Swapo, Hifikepunye Pohamba, is elected president after a landslide victory.
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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.
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BUCHAREST : Amid allegations of widescale fraud, the candidate of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) narrowly emerged the leader in the first round of Romania&#39;s presidential election, according to partial vote tallies.
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IBB, Yemen  - At least 51 people were killed and   238 were injured on Tuesday, a Yemeni official said, after a   stampede in a Yemeni stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh   was holding a pre-election rally.
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Yemen's president on Sunday acknowledged "mistakes" in elections which gave him more than 77 percent of the vote but stood by his victory as the opposition rejected the results, alleging the numbers were "set in advance."