Voting begins in Namibia to elect successor to Nujoma
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Outgoing President Sam Nujoma opened polls in Namibia on Monday by casting the first vote to elect his successor in the vast southwest African country.
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Senegalese began voting on Sunday in an election which President Abdoulaye Wade hopes will extend his rule for five more years in one of Africa's most stable democracies.
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OSHAKATI, Namibia  - Hifikepunye Pohamba, who has  spearheaded moves to expropriate white-owned land for  redistribution to black peasants, is virtually guaranteed  victory in Namibia's presidential polls next week.
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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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A body to standardise air safety measures across Africa is due to be inaugurated in Namibia.
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Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma vie for the top post as South Africa's ruling ANC elects its new leader.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesians began voting on Monday in a landmark election expected to remove President Megawati Sukarnoputri and install an ex-general who has vowed firmer leadership in fighting terror and boosting the economy.
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Voting begins in elections in Ghana with "gentle giant" John Kufuor favourite to secure a second term as president.
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Presidential elections take place in Ghana, with John Kufuor favourite to secure a second term.
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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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Palestinians have voted in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades in a dress rehearsal for next month&#39;s presidential ballot to choose former president Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.
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WINDHOEK  - With some delays due to a computer glitch, voting got under way in Namibia to elect a successor to President Sam Nujoma, who has ruled the vast southern African country since independence 14 years ago.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC on Tuesday began voting in a leadership election expected to be won by Jacob Zuma and put him on track to become the country's president in 2009.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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Vote counting started yesterday in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election, widely expected to install Hamid Karzai, the US-backed interim leader, as the country&#39;s first popularly chosen president.
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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.