Kenyan parliament elects opposition man as speaker
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Kenya's parliament elected a speaker from the opposition on Tuesday, heralding serious legislative problems for President Mwai Kibaki after his disputed re-election last month unleashed a wave of bloodshed.
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Kenya's opposition challenger Raila Odinga took the lead on Friday in the race to govern east Africa's biggest economy, media tallies showed, while activists voiced fears over delayed official results.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somalia's parliament passed a motion of no-confidence against the new prime minister and his Cabinet yesterday, an official said, effectively sacking a government that had been expected to restore order to the country after 13 years of anarchy and war. The deputy speaker of the 275-member transitional parliament, Dalhar Omar, said 153 members voted against Prime Minister ...
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Kenya's political turmoil moved to parliament on Tuesday with the government and opposition wrestling for control of the nation's legislature after the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
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Kenya's government and opposition crossed swords in parliament on Tuesday, arguing and shouting over the vote for a new speaker in the first session since the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s closest rival for the Afghan presidency, Yunus Qanooni, is to launch an opposition party, positioning himself as a key challenger in the new parliament.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 29 -- Just hours after an opposition lawmaker was gunned down in his driveway here, the fury that has swept over this country since last month's disputed presidential election arrived in his middle-class neighborhood.
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Kenya's feuding parties prepared on Monday for a new showdown in parliament and on the streets despite another international push to mediate a post-election crisis that has now killed at least 612 people.
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The parliament stripped an opposition lawmaker of his immunity Saturday so he could be prosecuted again for war crimes, but it rejected prosecutors' request for his renewed detention.
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An opposition lawmaker died at a hospital shortly after he was wounded in a shooting near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, a hospital official said.
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Kenya's opposition defeated the government in a crucial vote during the opening parliamentary session yesterday but the joy was tempered when former UN secretary general Kofi Annan postponed his attempt to end the political crisis and unrest in the country
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Kenyan voters went to the polls on Thursday to elect a new president and parliament with delays in some locations and charges from the main opposition candidate that the government was trying to rig the result.
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Kenyan opposition officials were behind attacks on the president's ethnic group, a rights group says.
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Kenya's opposition hopeful held his lead over President Mwai Kibaki in two final polls released on Thursday, a week before an election some fear could provoke trouble in one of Africa's most mature democracies.
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Gunmen killed an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi and government helicopters fired on crowds in the Rift Valley on Tuesday, the latest flare-up of the ethnic fighting that has gripped Kenya
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The opposition candidate in Kenya's presidential election, Raila Odinga, rejects the victory of President Kibaki.
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Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz is elected parliamentary speaker after Josef Oleksy's resignation.