Ruling party leads in Mozambique
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Ruling Frelimo party candidate Armando Guebuza took a broad lead in 10 of 11 provinces in early returns on Friday from two days of voting to pick a successor to the President who has led Mozambique for 18 years, state radio said.
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MAPUTO  - Some eight million Mozambicans go to the polls on Wednesday and Thursday to elect a successor to President Joaquim Chissano who is stepping down after leading the southern African country to peace after a lengthy and brutal civil war
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 22 -- Former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano on Monday won a $5 million leadership prize that promoters hope will encourage other African heads of state to rule wisely, without overstaying their welcomes.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s ruling party has used its parliamentary majority to pass electoral reforms the opposition says do not go far enough, and ban foreign-funded rights groups, a move critics say will stifle dissents.
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The former ruling party had an early lead late Sunday in state gubernatorial elections across Mexico as the party tried to build on a bid to retake the presidency in 2006.
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Mozambique's outgoing leader Joaquim Chissano says more people would vote if they were paid.
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Morocco's conservative Istiqlal party, a member of the kingdom's ruling coalition, won most seats in parliamentary elections that opposition Islamists said were skewed by vote buying.
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Initial results from Botswana&#39;s election were delayed on Sunday but President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party has won the first seat and is seen as safe to win the overall poll in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano wins the inaugural $5m Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.
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Armando Guebuza, secretary-general of Mozambique&#39;s ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and President Joaquim Chissano&#39;s hand-picked successor, was on Tuesday officially
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Zambia LUSAKA -- Populist opposition leader Michael Sata took an early lead in vote-counting in Zambia yesterday, but the final result remained uncertain in the battle for control of the copper-rich country. The election yesterday pitted Sata's vows for a more equitable distribution of wealth against the policies of President Levy Mwanawasa, which have won international praise but left millions ...
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 22 -- Former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano won a $5 million leadership prize Monday that promoters hope will encourage other African heads of state to rule wisely, without overstaying their welcomes.
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Botswana&#39;s ruling party has won by a landslide in Saturday&#39;s general elections, assuring President Festus Mogae of a second and final term in office.
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Mexico's former ruling party won two gubernatorial races and held narrow leads in two others Monday in an election showing that could make it a force in the 2006 national vote, in which the party seeks to regain the presidency it held for more than 70 years.
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Exit polls show Romaniaâs ruling party leading in parliamentary elections, but forced into a runoff in the race for president. But the governing Social Democratic Party was falling short of gaining a parliamentary
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Vote by party serves as repudiation of president after Jacob Zuma was better organised among poor