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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President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner amid riots in Kenyaâs slums and evidence of election mischief.
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Umaru Yar'Adua takes office as president of Nigeria on Tuesday, inheriting a catalogue of crises compounded by doubts over his own legitimacy after a flawed election.
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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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Namibia&#39;s ruling party candidate, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won an overwhelming victory in the country&#39;s presidential election.
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Indonesia&#39;s president-elect has finally given his victory speech, almost three weeks after the country&#39;s first direct presidential poll.
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Ernest Bai Koroma took oath Monday as Sierra Leone&#39;s new president after winning a tense runoff vote and vowed to wipe out graft and heal deep wounds in the impoverished war-scarred west African nation.
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Umaru Yar'Adua took office as president of Nigeria on Tuesday, inheriting a catalogue of crises compounded by doubts over his own legitimacy after a flawed election.
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Sierra Leoneans voted in a runoff presidential election on Saturday after a turbulent campaign but the opposition complained of intimidation and said its officials had been unable to reach some polling stations.
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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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AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Ernest Bai Koroma Ã¨ il nuovo Presidente della Sierra Leone. ÂDiamo fiducia ai sierraleonesiÂ dice un missionario Freetown (Agenzia Fides)- Ã Ernest Bai Koroma, leader dellÂAll PeopleÂs Congress Party (APC), il nuovo Presidente della Sierra Leone. Lo ha annunciato nella tarda mattinata di oggi, 17 settembre, la Commissione Elettorale Indipendente. Koroma ha vint...
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Voters in Sierra Leone wait for the results of Saturday's presidential run-off, which passed off peacefully.
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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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Sierra Leone opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma won the West African country's presidential election after a tense run-off vote marred by some cases of fraud, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Monday.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday,  officials said, in the 14th attempt in a decade to restore  government to the lawless African country.
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Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano wins the inaugural $5m Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.
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Ghana's President John Kufuor won a second and final four-year mandate in the world's number two cocoa grower on Thursday after taking more than half the votes in the first round of a presidential poll.