Senegal president 'in clear lead'
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Senegalese voters await the first official results, as  President Wade's supporters claim a strong lead.
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Voters in the West African nation of Senegal go to the polls to elect their next president.
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Early returns Friday from Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election put incumbent President Hamid Karzai in the lead, the Financial Times reported Friday.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade comfortably won a second term in Sunday's election, results showed on Thursday, and he warned opposition leaders they could now face corruption probes suspended during the poll campaign.
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The incumbent Afghan president HamidKarzai has taken lead in the presidential polls as he had secured 77 percent of the votes counted so far, a spokesman of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said Saturday.
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AFRICA/SENEGAL - Il Premier senegalese vara un piano di sviluppo economico: energia ed agricoltura tra le prioritÃ  Dakar (Agenzia Fides)- Energia ed agricoltura: sono le prioritÃ  economiche indicate dal Primo Ministro senegalese Cheikh Hadjibou SoumarÃ© in un discorso al Parlamento di Dakar. \
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Senegal on Monday defended the low poll turnout used by critics to question the legitimacy of weekend legislative elections, saying the west African nation had never had enthusiastic voters.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- With the counting effectively &quot;over and done,&quot; incumbent Hamid Karzai is the clear winner in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, a senior official has said.
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki is ahead in the presidential election with 45 percent, versus 41.2 for opposition leader Raila Odinga, according to an exit poll by a local independent election observer group.
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With one-third of the votes counted in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election, Hamid Karzai was leading with 64 per cent, and his campaign team said Tuesday it was certain the interim leader will win with the simple
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on course on Tuesday for an outright victory in the country&#39;s historic presidential election with almost a quarter of the votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.
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MOGADISHU -- The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia said yesterday he will rule according to Islamic law, a surprising announcement in an area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who control much of the country's south. Puntland President General Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears ...
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The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
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Hamid Karzai maintained his clear majority in the Afghan presidential elections as the vote count passed 75 percent, according to the official poll website.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (IPS) - When Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade  refused to sign a free trade accord put forward by the European  Union last month, he urged that an alternative "partnership  deprived of paternalism and without prejudice" be sought.
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President Hamid Karzai maintained his early lead in Afghanistan's election after just over eight percent of the ballots had been counted, the election commission said.
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Senegal has long been a bastion of stability in turbulent West Africa but with less than three months to go before presidential elections, cracks are showing in the region's model democracy.