Congo opens 1st campaign since 1960s
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Congo launched its first election campaign in four decades Friday, with 33 candidates seeking the presidency of the giant African country as it seeks normalcy after a brutal civil war.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s President Joseph Kabila visited the former rebel-held east on Saturday for the first time since taking power, a trip intended to show the country was reuniting after years of war.
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Iraq's domestic soccer league kicked  off Wednesday for the first time since American-led forces  invaded the country to oust dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Gabonese President Omar Bongo opened the first summit of heads of state of the African Union's Peace and Security Council in Libreville, which is due to address some of the continent's most intractable conflicts.
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A peace summit aimed at ending fighting in Congo's blood-steeped eastern provinces of North and South Kivu opened on Sunday without the presence of President Joseph Kabila and rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda.
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Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election began Tuesday, a crucial step in the nation&#39;s troubled transition to democracy after the fall of the Taliban nearly three years ago.
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Political parties in Iraq begin their first official day of campaigning ahead of the 30 January elections.
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Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election officially began today. Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai and his 17 opponents have 30 days to try to win support from more than 10 million registered voters.
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Candidates in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election began 30 days of campaigning for the Oct. 9 poll, the United Nations said.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars, a calculated gamble in a city of hustles.
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Kenya's parliament opened Tuesday for the first time since a disputed presidential election, a fight that has provoked widespread violence and was expected to carry over to the selection of a house speaker.
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21 December 2004 - In a bid to facilitate the delivery of relief aid, United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have set up a temporary buffer zone in the country&#39;s troubled east, where recent factional fighting threatened to
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Second place might be good enough for the former rebel trailing President Joseph Kabila in Congo's historic election &#151; at least this time around.
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Some 5,000 extra troops start to arrive in the DR Congo to reinforce a stretched UN peacekeeping force.
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Seven candidates running for Palestinian president, led by front-runner Mahmoud Abbas, kicked off a 15-day electoral campaign yesterday
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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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Joseph Kabila is to be inaugurated in DR Congo, following one of Africa's most significant elections for years.