Mozambique Votes to Elect Successor to Chissano
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Mozambique used canoes and helicopters to ferry ballot papers to remote rural districts for Wednesday&#39;s election to pick a successor to President Joaquim Chissano who spent 18 years in office.
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The Presidency of the European Union has urged Mozambique&#39;s main opposition party Renamo to accept election results, saying that the elections would &quot;reflect positively on the
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Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano wins the inaugural $5m Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.
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The Commonwealth and European Union have asked Mozambique for access to centers where votes from this week's election are being verified, after complaints by monitors raised questions over the credibility of the ballot.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC elected Jacob Zuma as its new leader on Tuesday, dumping President Thabo Mbeki and putting the populist Zuma on course to lead the country in 2009.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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Heavy rains and apparent low turnout  cast a shadow over Thursday's second day of Mozambican  elections for a successor to veteran President Joaquim  Chissano.
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Ruling party supporters in Mozambique celebrate the official victory of their presidential candidate, Armando Guebuza.
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Mozambique used canoes and helicopters to ferry ballot papers to remote rural districts for Wednesday&#39;s election to pick a successor to President Joaquim Chissano, who spent 18 years in office.
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Jacob Zuma, the new chairman of the African National Congress, will almost certainly succeed Thabo Mbeki as the leader of South Africaâs one-party democracy.
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Mozambique is set to end its blanket ban on abortion after the government acknowledged that current legislation was endangering the lives of women in one of Africa&#39;s most impoverished nations.
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Mondlane will join in some eight million Mozambicans Wednesday morning to cast a ballot for their future -- a new president will be chosen to lead the country for the next five years.
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Voting began Saturday in Sierra Leone's presidential runoff, a ballot to choose the diamond-rich but impoverished West African nation's first new leader since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago.
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Abkhazians are taking their democratic rights seriously as they vote to replace the man who led their fight for independence from Georgia.
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Mauritanians voted on Sunday to choose a president and restore civilian rule to the Saharan Islamic state after 19 months under a military junta.
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Namibians began voting on Monday for a successor to founding President Sam Nujoma, who stands down in March after 15 years in charge.
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Businessman Armando Guebuza has extended his lead in Mozambican elections to succeed President Joaquim Chissano, state radio said on Friday, as foreign observers complained they did not have full access to the polls.