In Mozambique, vote to bring change at top
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MAPUTO, Mozambique -- Mozambique's poor, many carrying small children, trudged along narrow dirt roads in oppressive heat yesterday to pick a replacement for the president who has ruled this downtrodden African country for the past 18 years.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, re-elected in a poll which his main challenger says was rigged, begins his last term on Tuesday aiming to consolidate an economic programme that has won him praise from Western lenders.
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The irregularities that marred Mozambique&#39;s 1-2 December general elections &quot;do not deprive the elections of their merit, nor do they change the final results&quot;, declared Brazao Mazula, spokesperson of the most representative group of Mozambican observers
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South Africa is to help Mozambique cope with the aftermath of a cyclone which hit the country on Thursday.
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Zimbabwe's government has proposed constitutional amendments on electoral policy and the creation of a human rights commission, steps critics say are designed to mask abuses and strengthen President Robert Mugabe's hold on power.
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The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is calling on the Government to introduce electoral reform. The MDC says it will not take part in Zimbabwe&#39;s 2005 general election because the poll will not be free and fair.
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Vote by party serves as repudiation of president after Jacob Zuma was better organised among poor
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Indonesian voters hungry for change are expected on Monday to do something that was unthinkable during the country's three decades of authoritarian rule &#151; toss out an incumbent president and vote in a political newcomer who has promised to crack down on corruption and revive the battered economy.
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Zambian voters are going to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local councillors.
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Since yesterday, leaders of countries that make up the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been meeting in Mauritius. The tone of the speeches presented so far suggests that the meeting will not be any different from previous ones. The ...
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Mauritanians vote on Sunday to choose a civilian president, completing a handover of power by a military junta which took control of the Islamic state on the western edge of the Sahara in a 2005 coup.
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MAPUTO  - Some eight million Mozambicans go to the polls on Wednesday and Thursday to elect a successor to President Joaquim Chissano who is stepping down after leading the southern African country to peace after a lengthy and brutal civil war
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A new foundation devoted to improving African governance awarded an audacious inaugural prize to Joaquim A. Chissano, Mozambiqueâs second president.
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Both the main candidates in Mozambique&#39;s presidential elections, the general secretary of the ruling Frelimo Party, Armando Guebuza, and the leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, Afonso Dhlakama, expressed confidence in victory when speaking to
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Voting began Saturday in Sierra Leone's presidential runoff, a ballot to choose the diamond-rich but impoverished West African nation's first new leader since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago.
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Thursday's tight presidential race is a rarity in Africa, where one-party rule is the norm.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 22 -- Former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano won a $5 million leadership prize Monday that promoters hope will encourage other African heads of state to rule wisely, without overstaying their welcomes.