Botswana gears up for the polls
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Supporters cheer Botswana's President Festus Mogae in the last day of campaigning before Saturday's parliamentary polls.
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Festus Mogae, the Botswana president, pledged to work hard on Aids and unemployment today as he was sworn in for a second term after winning an election praised by Western diplomats as a model for other African democracies.
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Hard-liners raced ahead Thursday in an election to decide who will control the Northern Ireland Assembly &#151; and hold the key to revived power-sharing in this British territory.
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Botswana's capital offers an example of one city's efforts to manage explosive growth.
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The power dynamics in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have taken a major shift following Saturday&#39;s national election.
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As expected, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) headed by President Festus Mogae won the elections, winning 29 of the 57 seats up for election, giving Mogae a second five-year term in office.
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Mogae (65), who took over the presidency in 1998 from Ketumile Masire, has campaigned on a platform that calls for continuity, telling voters that the prosperity built in Botswana over nearly four decades was due to his party&#39;s sound policies.
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Vote counting has begun in Tuesday&#39;s general election in Ghana, where President John Kufuor is widely expected to win re-election.
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Cameroonian voters are to go to the polls in a parliamentary election, amid opposition claims of vote-rigging.
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Campaigning for Morocco&#39;s legislative elections began Saturday with a record number of parties vying for seats and observers expecting Islamist candidates to make gains in next month&#39;s vote.
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President Robert Mugabe nominated by his party as its candidate in the presidential elections next March
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Botswana President Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party leads in early results on Sunday with the opposition split -- and is seen as a safe bet to win overall in the world&#39;s largest diamond producer.
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Campaigning began in Sierra Leone on Saturday for a presidential election run-off on September 8 between main opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma and Solomon Berewa of the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).
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Voters in Ghana queued on Tuesday to  choose a new leader for their West African country in what was  expected to be a race between incumbent John Kufuor and  long-standing rival John Atta Mills.
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GABORONE, Botswana - President Festus Mogae was reassured of a new term as his ruling Botswana Democratic Party swamped the opposition, keeping its 38-year lock on power in one of African&#39;s most stable democracies, election officials said Monday.
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Thailand heads to the polls Sunday in an election meant to restore democracy more than a year after the military ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose shadow looms large over the balloting.
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People in Thailand take part in the first general election since last year's coup which ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra.