Mozambique&#39;s elections enter into second day with low voting
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Mozambicans on Thursday began a second and last day of voting to choose a successor to outgoing President Joaquim Chissano, and election officials continue to appeal for more
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Mozambique&#39;s long-time President Joaquim Chissano expressed surprise on Thursday at the abysmal turnout in elections to choose his successor, and blamed the poor showing on widespread illiteracy and ignorance of political systems.
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LUSAKA, Zambia, Sept. 29 -- Zambian officials began tallying ballots early Friday after a huge turnout in close elections fought on a debate over President Levy Mwanawasa's economic policies. International donors had praised his actions, but the opposition denounced them for failing to lift...
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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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Vote by party serves as repudiation of president after Jacob Zuma was better organised among poor
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Morocco&#39;s oldest political party Istiqlal emerged Saturday as the biggest in parliament after an election marred by the lowest turnout ever recorded in the North African nation.
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Maputo - The former rebel organisation Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) on Friday claimed there were gross irregularities during elections on Wednesday and Thursday to choose a successor to long-serving president Joaquim Chissano.
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East Timor counted ballots Sunday a day after the impoverished nation&#39;s first legislative election since its independence in 2002.
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President Joseph Kabila's lead Saturday in Congo's historic presidential election was below the majority needed to avoid a runoff, a day before the deadline for a preliminary tally of votes.
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Both the main candidates in Mozambique&#39;s presidential elections, the general secretary of the ruling Frelimo Party, Armando Guebuza, and the leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, Afonso Dhlakama, expressed confidence in victory when speaking to
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Results from Botswana&#39;s parliamentary election on Saturday will emerge later than expected, officials said on Sunday, but the poll is still expected to return President Festus Mogae&#39;s party to power.
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Polls opened Sunday in the second round of France&#39;s parliamentary elections, with some 35 million registered voters choosing National Assembly deputies in the 467 constituencies where there was no winner in the first round a week ago.
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The Commonwealth and European Union have  asked Mozambique for access to centers where votes from this  week's election are being verified, after complaints by  monitors raised questions over the credibility of the ballot.
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Mozambique&#39;s poor, many carrying small children, trudged along narrow dirt roads in oppressive heat Wednesday to pick a replacement for the president who has ruled
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LUSAKA, Zambia -- The nation's Electoral Commission said yesterday that President Levy Mwanawasa was reelected to a second term, collecting 43 percent of the votes cast in last week's balloting.
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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.
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Police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday as President Mwai Kibaki began a second term after a disputed vote that has hurt Kenya's democratic credentials and brought a death toll rising into the dozens.