Kenyans Vote in Test of Democracy
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The presidential election is predicted to be the tightest race in the countryâs history.
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Kenya's parliament opened Tuesday for the first time since a disputed presidential election, a fight that has provoked widespread violence and was expected to carry over to the selection of a house speaker.
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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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Two heavyweights of Kenya's post-independence politics square off in a presidential vote on Thursday whose run-up has seen the opposition hold a small lead in opinion polls over President Mwai Kibaki.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 29 -- Protests and riots erupted across this East African nation Saturday as millions of people grew restless waiting for results in the most competitive presidential contest in Kenya's history.
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Kenyans go to the polls on Thursday in an atmosphere of suspicion, with rumours rife of vote-rigging.
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Kenyan election officials counted ballots Friday in the country's closest-ever presidential race after an election praised as orderly and peaceful despite sporadic violence
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Early tallies by Kenyan broadcasters showed President Mwai Kibaki trailing his main rival on Friday in the country's closest-fought election since independence in 1963.
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Hong Kong residents began voting Sunday in a legislative election that could bring big gains for the democracy camp, which has angered Beijing with its demands for universal suffrage in the former British colony.
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Thousands of people waved machetes and burned down homes as tensions flared over the slow return of results from the closest presidential election in Kenyaâs history.
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T wo days after Christmas, Kenyans will vote in a general election that will shape more than just the future of Kenya itself. A stable Kenya helps hold together a rough neighbourhood that includes Sudan and Somalia. A prosperous, globalised Kenya, where the spread of mobile telephones has spawned a new generation of entrepreneurs, should be an example for the region. Kenya is where a million tourists a year form their impressions of the continent of Africa. Hence my concern for the future of my country, from which I chose to exile myself three years ago.
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Congolese voted Sunday in their first democratic election in more than four decades, many hoping for an end to years of fighting and corrupt rule that have devastated the mineral-rich nation in the heart of Africa.
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The people of Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries, are voting in presidential and parliamentary elections.
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NAKURU, Kenya -- Along a crowded sidewalk in this city, Esther Thuo and a friend were discussing their choices in Kenya's upcoming presidential election.
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Ukrainians voted Sunday in a presidential election viewed as a test of democracy in the former Soviet republic and an indicator of whether it will move closer to
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A neck-and-neck race for Kenyaâs presidency with Raila Odinga, an unconventional opponent, will test whether voters will vote strictly along tribal lines.
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Zambian voters are going to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local councillors.