In kingdom of Swaziland, a rising call for democracy
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MBABANE, Swaziland -- He sat at the back of the restaurant, facing the front door. &quot;I'm always being followed,&quot; said Mario Masuku, Swaziland's main opposition leader. &quot;So I like to see who is following me.&quot;
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As an HIV conference opens, a study shows Aids deaths may be undermining southern Africa's democracy.
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The charges against the new leader of South Africaâs dominant party could precipitate a political crisis.
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From Nepal's royal coup to the flight of Cambodian opposition leaders, democracy is under assault.
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Jacob Zuma, the new chairman of the African National Congress, will almost certainly succeed Thabo Mbeki as the leader of South Africaâs one-party democracy.
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Yemenis are voting in elections seen as a test of government commitment to reform.
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The rebels are seeking to force the countryâs president, Idriss DÃ©by, to share power or step down.
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East Timor's people have turned out in high numbers for three rounds of elections, but the show of democracy cannot mask mounting challenges facing Asia's newest nation five years after independence.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - The unity and discipline that bound South Africa's ruling ANC through decades of struggle against apartheid has crumbled in a grassroots revolution that swept Jacob Zuma to top of the party.
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Elections in the next few weeks  will bring new faces and new hope to a clutch of African  countries, but many of the poor, war-damaged continent's  nascent democracies face major hurdles in the coming year.
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Morocco is struggling to decide what kind of democracy it should become after years of cautious reform helped the north African kingdom shed a repressive past.
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Voters in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho go to the polls in what is expected to be a closely fought election.
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For many people in the heart of this African nation, Sunday was no day to celebrate the country's first democratic vote in decades. Instead, they stayed away from the polls &#151; either heeding an opposition leader's boycott call or afraid of young men armed with stones.
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South Africa's ruling party tries to soothe the tempers of President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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Thousands protested a proposal for their provinceâs future, which they say falls short of their desire for independence.
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The island nation's government is receiving new support from an unusual political group.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 16 -- Thousands of African National Congress activists who assembled here to elect their next party president responded to a 2 1/2 -hour speech by incumbent Thabo Mbeki with cheers, dancing and stirring songs of liberation.