NEWSMAKER-Namibia&#39;s Nujoma to stand down but stay in saddle
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Namibia&#39;s founding President Sam Nujoma is to stand down in March after this week&#39;s elections, but will remain a lynchpin of his country&#39;s politics as president of the ruling SWAPO party.
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The incumbent John Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party is set for a second term as President of Ghana, as counting from the 2004 elections comes to an end.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Kofi Annan is rejecting calls for his resignation, vowing to &quot;carry on&quot; at the helm of the United Nations for the next two years.
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Jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti is expected to withdraw from the race for leadership of the Palestinian Authority in the coming days, say senior Fatah sources, if his political demands are met by his election rival, former prime minister Mahmoud
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South African president likely to lose party leadership to man he sacked as deputy president, Jacob Zuma
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Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has stepped into the fray between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Thabo Mbeki, calling for calm and offering to mediate between the two.
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Namibia&#39;s ruling party retained the presidency and its two-thirds majority in parliament in a landslide victory in last week&#39;s elections, officials said Sunday.
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Namibia players say they were approached to fix their final group match at the Nations Cup.
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Firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to lay down their arms and leave Najaf and neighboring Kufa Friday after agreeing to a peace deal brokered by Iraq's top spiritual leader to end ...
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Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his fighters to lay down arms and leave the holy city of Najaf. It follows a deal brokered by Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric that ended weeks of violence.
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GLASGOW, May 26 (IPS) - On the face of it, nothing really  'happened'   at the Civicus world assembly, other than  the announcement that   secretary-general Kumi Naidoo would quit.  But that announcement did   not need a world assembly. Perhaps  the symbolic locking up in a cage   to draw attention to civil  society activists was something supplied by   way of a  'happening'. The rest was, and was expected to be, no  more   than talk.
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ARANDIS, Namibia -- This sandy little company town, with its tree-lined streets and concrete homes set amid a vast, forbidding desert, had all the signs of terminal decline just a few years back. Both banks closed. The only gas station shut off its pumps. And employable young men, realizing the bleak future of the giant uranium mine that gave Arandis life, began drifting away....
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NAACP President Kweisi Mfume plans to announce he is stepping down as the head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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OSHAKATI, Namibia  - Hifikepunye Pohamba, who has  spearheaded moves to expropriate white-owned land for  redistribution to black peasants, is virtually guaranteed  victory in Namibia's presidential polls next week.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to lay down their arms and leave Najaf and neighboring Kufa Friday after agreeing to a peace deal brokered by Iraq's top spiritual leader to end three weeks of bloody fighting.    Al-Sadr issued the order in a statement to his Mahdi Army militia that also was broadcast through loudspeakers at the revered Imam Ali Shrine, which militants have used as a stronghold and refuge throughout their standoff with a combined U.S.-Iraqi force...
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French President Jacques Chirac on Monday honoured his Namibian counterpart Sam Nujoma, who is due to leave office in March 2005, with France's top distinction, the Legion of Honour.
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Former anti -corruption chief, John Githongo, who resigned yesterday is staying on in London, The Standard can reveal.