Corruption fight at stake as Zambia votes
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Candidates are sparring over anti-graft moves ahead of Thursday's presidential and parliamentary vote.
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OTHAYA, Kenya  - With a political career as old as his nation, President Mwai Kibaki faces a verdict on his progress leading east Africa's biggest economy and efforts to fix years of corruption at his final election battle this month.
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Zambians describe their voting experiences as they go to the polls in their country's fourth multi-party presidential and general elections.
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Divisions over the World Bank's   handling of corruption burst into the open on Monday ahead of a   vote on governance reforms likely to expose deep fault lines at   the bank's sister agency, the International Monetary Fund.
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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.
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South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma is a veteran anti-apartheid fighter whose bid to lead the country largely hinges on the outcome of a sensational corruption trial starting on Monday.
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As the voting gets underway, in what is expected to be a tight race, there are already election fears of fraud. Many are worried that the PSD (Social Democrats) might attempt to manipulate the voting in some way.
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Whichever way Kenyans vote in their elections, most are united by one concern -- corruption.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is to be sworn in for a second term of office, after his disputed election victory.
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Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata   praised the policies of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe on Thursday as   he voted in a close-fought election in which he threatens to   dislodge the internationally respected president.
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Zambian ex-president Frederick Chiluba on Monday launched a legal bid to block the state from claiming a $58 million fine imposed on him by a London judge in a landmark ruling against official African corruption.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must contest a run-off after a string of corruption scandals turned many voters against the former factory worker in Sunday's presidential election.
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Zambian elections officials are counting the votes cast after a closely contested presidential election.
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The ruling ANC's top decision-making body will discuss corruption charges against party leader Jacob Zuma on Monday in an explosive case that could derail his hopes of becoming South Africa's president.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a month of high-stakes campaigning against an inspired challenger who will try to hammer on corruption scandals to unseat the former metalworker in a run-off vote.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa Dec. 18--Thousands of African National Congress activists lined up in the rain Tuesday morning to elect a r new leader: either incumbent President Thabo Mbeki or the man he fired in 2005 because of alleged corruption, former deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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Zambia deployed armed police in the capital Lusaka on Sunday as incumbent Levy Mwanawasa widened his lead in the presidential election count, prompting charges of ballot rigging from challenger Michael Sata.