Nigerians choose rival candidates
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Nigeria's main opposition party meets to choose its candidate to challenge the PDP's Umara Yar'Adua in April's polls.
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Outgoing Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was set Tuesday to hand over power to the man he handpicked to succeed him, Umaru Yar&#39;Adua, who was a little-known governor of an obscure northern state.
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The main candidates in Serbia's presidential election:
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Nigeria's ruling party presidential candidate, Umaru Yar'Adua, tells the BBC he is well enough to run in April's polls.
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Voters in Ghana have turned out in droves to cast ballots in a presidential poll in the world&#39;s number two cocoa grower, seen as a race between incumbent John Kufuor and arch-rival John Atta Mills.
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Nigeria's vice president is on a list of candidates the anti-graft agency says are too corrupt to run in elections.
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The race to succeed outgoing PM Shinzo Abe hots up, as two key candidates indicate they plan to run.
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Serbs chose local leaders Sunday in elections expected to be an even race between candidates loyal to former President Slobodan Milosevic and pro-Western reformers.
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One of Nigeria's main opposition leaders criticises his party's decision to join the government.
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Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar'Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa's most populous nation in elections next year.
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Both parties have similar kinds of candidates. Meet the Charismatic, the Practicals, and the Base-Wooers.
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President overshadowed by race to choose successor attempts to reassert primacy
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Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance, fresh  from winning landmark elections, gathered Monday to choose a  candidate for prime minister and the allies it needs after  failing to win an absolute majority.
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Nigeria's main opposition parties say they will still field their election candidates accused of corruption.
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Ukraine&#39;s political and business elites are looking for a new candidate to take on opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, The Moscow Times reported Thursday.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed a special adviser on the volatile oil-rich Niger delta, amid a spate of kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the region.
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Nigeria's vice president is on a list of names released by the anti-graft agency it says are too corrupt to run in elections.