Namibia votes to elect new leader
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Retiring president Sam Nujoma, founder of the state who has held office for 15 years, cast the first vote at a polling station in the capital, Windhoek.
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Voters in Ghana queued on Tuesday to  choose a new leader for their West African country in what was  expected to be a race between incumbent John Kufuor and  long-standing rival John Atta Mills.
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Namibia&#39;s white farmers were braced for a Zimbabwe-style land grab after polls opened following the retirement of President Sam Nujoma.
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MOZAMBICANS HAVE their sights on the future as they cast votes for a new president following the retirement of Joachim Chissano. Chissano, who has been in power for 18 years, has led one of Africaâs poorest
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Battle-weary citizens chose an opposition leader as their next president, voting against the party that ushered the country out of a devastating war in 2002 and for the promise of less corruption and more jobs.
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Voting begins in Niger's presidential elections, with the incumbent, Mamadou Tandja, expected to win.
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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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South Africa's ruling ANC confirms that its new leader Jacob Zuma will be the party's presidential candidate in 2009.
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The African National  Congress (ANC) on Tuesday will hold a leadership vote that  could end President Thabo Mbeki's control over South Africa's  ruling party and tilt the government to the left.
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Indonesia's largest party is electing its new leader in Bali in what is one of the most critical periods in its history.
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Dutch voters picked a new parliament Wednesday in an election that could determine whether the country's tight immigration rules get even tougher or follow what the opposition calls a more humane path.Comment
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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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Namibian voters are casting their ballots in the nation&#39;s presidential and parliamentary elections. In Windhoek, people started arriving at the polling stations as early as 5am today.
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Gaborone - Voters in Botswana, one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries, head to the polling stations on Saturday for a general election which is expected to see the party in power since independence in 1966, win victory and set in motion a leadership change
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Mauritanians voted on Sunday to choose a president and restore civilian rule to the Saharan Islamic state after 19 months under a military junta.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's feuding ruling party met on Monday for the election of a new leader, a vote expected to put Jacob Zuma on course to become state president in 2009.
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Mozambicans began voting on Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections focusing on who will succeed President Joaquim Chissano, stepping down after 18 years in office.