Zimbabwe ruling party elects first woman VP
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Joyce Mujuru, attends the ruling ZANU-PF party annual convention in Harare, Dec. 2. Mujuru, a longtime member of President Robert Mugabe&#39;s cabinet and a veteran of the 1970s guerrilla war against white minority
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South Africa's foreign minister said Tuesday she is satisfied that Zimbabwe is taking steps to ensure free and fair parliamentary elections &#151; even as the country's opposition leaders protest sweeping security measures, arrests and intimidation.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party was leading in the general elections held on Saturday,according to initial results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s Movement for Democratic Change has hailed the acquittal of its leader Morgan Tsvangirai on treason charges as a victory for the people of that country.
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Pratibha Patil has been elected as India's first female president, voting officials say.
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Emily Kernan Rafferty will be the first woman to hold the job when she succeeds David E. McKinney in January.
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Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rode an economic boom and her husband's popularity to victory in a presidential election on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman leader.
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Indian lawmakers have selected the nation's first female president in a vote seen as a symbolic victory for women contending with widespread discrimination, election officials said Saturday.
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Argentina on course for first elected woman president after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declares victory.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC elected Jacob Zuma as its new leader on Tuesday, dumping President Thabo Mbeki and putting the populist politician on course to lead the country in 2009.
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Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe&#39;s opposition and the strongest ever challenger to the 24-year rule of President Robert Mugabe, was found not guilty of treason by the country&#39;s High Court.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party on Saturday confirmed the election of the first woman candidate as deputy to President Robert Mugabe at the end of a congress which also endorsed Mugabe as party leader for another five years.
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The southern African nation of Namibia voted on Monday for a successor to the only leader the country has ever known, and election officials said the first of two days of voting started smoothly.
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BOTSWANA&#39;S ruling party had won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections, handing President Festus Mogae a second and final term in office, election officials said today.
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ZIMBABWE&#39;S ruling party used its parliamentary majority today to pass electoral reforms the opposition said did not go far enough, and ban foreign-funded rights groups, a move critics say would stifle dissent.
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Jamaica's main opposition party won a close election Monday, ousting the country's first woman prime minister and ending her party's nearly 20-year-old hold on power, according to preliminary results.
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In Zimbabwe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been cleared of treason. On Friday, the Harare High Court pronounced innocent the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change.