Somali Presidential Vote Goes to 2nd Round
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A presidential election aimed at  restoring national government to lawless Somalia for the first  time in 13 years went into a second round on Sunday after no  outright winner emerged in the first ballot.
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President Abdoulaye Wade sought to win a second seven-year term in office Sunday, facing off against 14 challengers as voting began in an election to decide who will lead one of Africa's most stable democracies.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has won re-election for a second term, poll officials say.
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Chechnya has elected Moscow&#39;s clear favorite, Alu Alkhanov, as president, with nearly 74 percent of the vote, the BBC reported Monday.
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A presidential election aimed at  restoring national government to lawless Somalia for the first  time in 13 years went into a third round on Sunday after no  outright winner emerged.
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BELGRADE, Jan 23 (IPS) - The two leading candidates in the presidential  elections Sunday headed into a second round Feb. 3 as expected.  Less expected was the high turnout.
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After years of anarchy, Somalia is poised to set up a new parliament which will elect a president.
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Russian government has welcomed the election of the new Somali president, Col Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr Aleksandr Yakovenko, said that his government hopes the remaining
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Somalia's new prime minister may by reappointed, and then put to a vote of confidence, officials say.
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President Hamid Karzai is close to winning the Afghan presidential poll, with nearly 60% of the votes and more than half the ballots counted.
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Somali lawmakers began voting on Sunday  for a president in the 14th attempt in a decade to return  government to the lawless Horn of Africa state.
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Somalia&#39;s clan leaders gathered Sunday to choose their first president in more than a decade in an election that the international community hopes will
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Sign of retaining Afghan presidency by the incumbent President Hamid Karzai became stronger Thursday as he has secured 59.1 percent of over 53 percent of the total votes counted so far, according to the update figure of Afghan election website.
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Niger's president is elected for a second term after comfortably winning a run-off vote, officials say.
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Mauritanians vote on Sunday to choose a civilian president, completing a handover of power by a military junta which took control of the Islamic state on the western edge of the Sahara in a 2005 coup.
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Turkey&#39;s parliament held a second round vote Friday to elect a president, but frontrunner Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was only expected to secure the post in a third ballot next week.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.