Ghana Votes for New President, Parliament
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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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Namibians began voting on Monday for a successor to founding President Sam Nujoma, who stands down in March after 15 years in charge.
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Queen Elizabeth II formally welcomed Ghanaian President John Kufuor to Britain on Tuesday on a state visit marking the 50th anniversary of Ghana&#39;s independence from its colonial ruler.
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Zambia went to the polls on Thursday to   elect a new president after a razor-tight race pitting the   internationally respected incumbent against a fiery populist   who has promised to give impoverished Zambians a bigger share   of their nation's copper riches.
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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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Togo's parliament on Sunday elected the  son of late President Gnassingbe Eyadema as head of the  national assembly, a move which allows him to rule the former  French colony unchallenged until June 2008.
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Ghana&#39;s President John Kufuor won a second and final four-year mandate in the world&#39;s number two cocoa grower on Thursday after taking more than half the votes in the first round of a presidential poll.
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Singing, dancing and chanting delegates of the governing African National Congress cast their votes Tuesday for the next party president after a bitter contest that strained the organization's fabled discipline and unity.
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Voters in the Gulf state of Bahrain go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new parliament.
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Britain congratulated Ghanaian President John Kufuor on his election victory, and praised the west African state for holding free, fair and transparent elections.
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Ghana's President John Kufuor won a  second and final four-year mandate in the world's number two  cocoa grower on Thursday after taking more than half the votes  in the first round of a presidential poll.
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Vote counting has begun in Tuesday&#39;s general election in Ghana, where President John Kufuor is widely expected to win re-election.
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DEOTHANG, Bhutan  - Bhutanese voted on Monday to elect members to a new upper house of parliament for the first time, a step towards democracy after a century of absolute monarchy.
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Turkmenistan voted for a new president on Sunday in its first contested election, but one virtually certain to be won by an aide to the country's former authoritarian leader who died in December.
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Gambians go to the polls to elect a president, with incumbent Yahya Jammeh favourite to win.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s transitional parliament began voting Sunday for a new interim president for the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in a stadium in neighboring Kenya.
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Ghanaians went to the polls yesterday to elect a new President and members of Parliament with former President Jerry Rawlings accusing Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo of undue interference in the electoral process.