Election blow for Babangida
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Ex-Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Babangida will not be the ruling party's candidate in next year's polls.
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The fine print of Kenyan election law could result in an inconclusive end to the closely contested presidential race.
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Mozambique&#39;s long-time President Joaquim Chissano expressed surprise on Thursday at the abysmal turnout in elections to choose his successor, and blamed the poor showing on widespread illiteracy and ignorance of political systems.
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Kolkata, September 29: The next President of the BCCI would be elected on Wednesday as efforts to reach a last minute consensus apparently failed on Wednesday morning.
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Indonesiaâs president Megawati Sukarnoputri has refused to acknowledge defeat in this weekâs national elections. With 104 million of the estimated 120 million votes cast in Mondayâs elections counted
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Kenya's opposition party struck a significant blow against the government as its candidates were elected as the house speaker of parliament and deputy speaker in the third round of voting Tuesday.
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The question of Thabo Mbeki's succession is likely to overshadow South Africa's ruling party gathering.
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Campaigning ends ahead of Namibia's presidential poll, which will elect a successor to President Sam Nujoma.
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An opinion poll published in Jakarta shows Indonesia&#39;s President Megawati Sukarnoputri is set for a crushing defeat in next Monday&#39;s presidential election run-off.
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JOHANNESBURG, DEC 5: Blood donated by South African President Thabo Mbeki was destroyed because he did not complete a mandatory questionnaire and his race placed him in a high-risk category, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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A victory by a Thai opposition candidate in the race for Bangkok governor is a blow to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his party ahead of national polls early next year, analysts said.
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Kenya opposition challenger Raila Odinga's lead sharply narrowed over President Mwai Kibaki to just 38,000 votes on Saturday, latest official election figures showed.
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's top anticorruption official quit yesterday, dealing the biggest blow so far to President Mwai Kibaki's election pledge to root out public corruption hobbling East Africa's largest economy.
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Musharraf's leading lieutenants appear to have lost their seats in early results in Pakistan's election
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The corruption-tainted president is still favored to win reelection, but his failure to gain a majority in the first round has shaken him
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The east African nation is in crisis after a flawed election leads to riots in the streets and the threat of a confrontation between rival ethnic groups
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The bitterly fought contest to become president of Romania was too close to call last night after a run-off ballot placed the outgoing prime minister in a dead heat with the mayor of Bucharest, according to exit polls.