Opposition wins in Sierra Leone
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Opposition candidate Ernest Bai Koroma has won Sierra Leone's presidential run-off, election officials declared Monday.
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Â¡Â¡BEJIJING, Dec. 14 -- Romanian opposition candidate Traian Basescu has won the presidential election after overcoming current Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in the tightest of contests.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes yesterday by a UN-backed court -- the first verdicts from the country's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
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Namibia&#39;s ruling South West African People&#39;s Organization retained its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly Sunday after a landslide victory in parliamentary and presidential elections.
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A U.N.-backed court Wednesday found three former leaders of a Sierra Leone junta guilty of war crimes, the first convictions stemming from the country's decade-long civil war.
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As expected, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) headed by President Festus Mogae won the elections, winning 29 of the 57 seats up for election, giving Mogae a second five-year term in office.
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Election workers across Jamaica recounted votes on Tuesday after the opposition Jamaica Labour Party apparently ended the ruling party's 18-year reign in a cliffhanger vote, winning 31 of 60 seats in parliament.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia  - Prime Minister Anton Rop conceded defeat Sunday after preliminary results showed the centre-right opposition winning Slovenia's parliamentary elections.
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Three rebel leaders are found guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone - the first verdicts for the UN-backed tribunal.
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Police crack down on opposition protests after president declares himself victorious in disputed poll
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has an early lead as results come in from Sierra Leone's presidential election.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- A coalition backing President Joseph Kabila won Congo's first free parliamentary elections in more than 40 years but fell short of an overall majority, electoral authorities said yesterday.
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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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The opposition Jamaica Labour Party appeared to win power in a cliffhanger election on Monday but the ruling party, facing the end of an 18-year reign, served notice it would likely challenge the result.
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Kenya's opposition won the post of speaker of parliament on Tuesday, confirming its supremacy in the house and signaling legislative problems for President Mwai Kibaki after his disputed presidential election.
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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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Jamaica's electoral authorities confirm that the opposition Labour Party has  won the general election.