Early exit poll gives Kenya's Kibaki election lead
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An early exit poll gave Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki a narrow lead in Thursday's vote, praised by observers as a smooth exercise despite delays, sporadic violence and rigging charges from both sides.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday congratulated Wangari Maathai, the assistant minister for environment and natural resources, for becoming the first African woman to win
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has an early lead as results come in from Sierra Leone's presidential election.
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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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Kenyan police fired teargas on Tuesday to disperse supporters of President Mwai Kibaki hours before former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan starts mediating in an election standoff that has caused weeks of violent unrest.
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President Mwai Kibaki dissolved Kenya's parliament Monday, starting the countdown to elections in December that promise to be the most closely contested in the country's history.
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Kenya's opposition won the post of speaker of parliament on Tuesday, confirming its supremacy in the house and signaling legislative problems for President Mwai Kibaki after his disputed presidential election.
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Kenyan election officials were counting votes Friday as results continued to trickle in from the provinces in the country's tight presidential and legislative race.
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Two heavyweights of Kenya's post-independence politics square off in a presidential vote on Thursday that has overshadowed Christmas and seen the opposition hold a small lead in opinion polls during the campaign.
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President Mwai Kibaki tried to fend off a fiery opposition leader in an election that was shaping up to be the closest in Kenyaâs history.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki trailed his main rival on Friday in the race to lead east Africa's biggest economy for the next five years, according to early tallies by local media.
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Early forecasts showed Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki in a close fight on Friday with his main challenger after an election diplomats praised as smooth, despite sporadic violence and rigging claims by both sides.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki dissolved parliament on Monday, starting the countdown to what could be the closest election in east Africa's biggest economy.
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Botswana President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party was leading in the general elections held on Saturday,according to initial results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich had a lead of about percentage points over opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko in the first official results in Ukraine&#39;s presidential run-off announced early on Monday.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki is likely to face his main political rival for the first time since disputed polls cast their country into chaos when the newly elected parliament sits on Tuesday.
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Early returns Friday from Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election put incumbent President Hamid Karzai in the lead, the Financial Times reported Friday.