Pan-African Parliament Opens With High Hopes
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A lavish ceremony has marked the opening of the second session of the Pan-African Parliament. It is the first time the body is meeting in South Africa, it is permanent host country.
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The African Union on Friday hailed the convening of the inaugural summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region as an important event in history.
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Australia's parliament opened with its first ever Aboriginal welcome ceremony Tuesday as new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd prepared to give a landmark apology to the minority's "Stolen Generations."
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The European Parliament, in its specialised committees here, on Monday begins to hear candidates for membership in the European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union.
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Thousands of people are expected to turn out to celebrate the official opening of Scotland's new parliament.
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Hosts Ghana take on Guinea in the opening match of the Africa Cup of Nations 2008.
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Joseph Kabila will be sworn in on Wednesday as Congo's first freely elected president in more than four decades, but he faces a mammoth task to satisfy popular expectations after years of war, dictatorship and chaos.
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NAIROBI -- Members of a new transitional parliament were sworn in yesterday, a key step toward establishing Somalia's first national government since 1991. But a dispute within one of the country's main clans over its delegates threatened to scuttle the peace process, mediators said.
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Africans opened a new home for the first Pan-African Parliament yesterday at a colourful event in Johannesburg marred only by a civil servant strike.
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Lula comes to the Presidency with a huge mandate  -  and an intractable parliament
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African leaders pitched on Monday for more trade and investment from Asia, saying they were pushing through economic and political reforms that will open up business opportunities in the continent.
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Heads of state from 17 African countries attended the opening of an African Union summit in Burkina Faso to craft a jobs creation plan to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC opened a conference on Sunday to elect its new party leader, who is likely to succeed President Thabo Mbeki when he leaves office in 2009.
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Across most of Amman you could hear the guns blasting out their ceremonial salute, as King Abdullah arrived for the state opening of the Jordanian parliament just a few days ago.
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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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Security checks, landscaping and cleaning are carried out at the Scottish Parliament in preparation for its opening.
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An African mini summit on theDarfur issue, which brought together leaders from Libya, Sudan,Egypt, Nigeria and Chad, opened here Sunday.