Senegal votes, Wade seeks first-round victory
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Senegalese began voting on Sunday in an election which President Abdoulaye Wade hopes will extend his rule for five more years in one of Africa's most stable democracies.
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Outgoing President Sam Nujoma opened polls in Namibia on Monday by casting the first vote to elect his successor in the vast southwest African country.
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Preliminary vote totals in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election appear to give transitional leader Hamid Karzai a numeric lock on the victory.
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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 Sunday after no  outright winner emerged in the first ballot.
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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade is to sign a peace deal with Casamance rebels, aimed at ending conflict.
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President Abdoulaye Wade took an early lead over rivals in Senegal's election on Sunday, the official news agency reported, citing initial returns from a poll which saw a high turnout across the West African country.
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Snaking lines of hundreds of voters built up at balloting places across Ghana on Tuesday, as the first sub-Saharan country to gain independence voted for president.
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WHAT'S AT STAKE: Sunday's election to replace Yasser Arafat could launch the Arab world's first democracy with a peaceful power transfer that bodes well for the long-held dream of a Palestinian state.
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Interim leader Hamid Karzai was strongly favored in early results from the vote count of Afganistan&#39;s landmark presidential ballot yesterday as elections workers took a break to mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Interim leader Hamid Karzai has clinched a majority of the votes in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election under near-complete results Monday, leaving him all but certain of becoming this war-wrecked nation&#39;s first democratically
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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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Heat guard Dwyane Wade will seek a second opinion early this week before deciding whether to rehabilitate his dislocated left shoulder or have season-ending surgery to repair the joint. "The sooner the better," Miami coach and president Pat Riley said Sunday, before the Heat played host to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade comfortably won a second term in Sunday's election, results showed on Thursday, and he warned opposition leaders they could now face corruption probes suspended during the poll campaign.
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Yao Ming is more than 60,000 votes ahead of Shaquille O&#39;Neal in the race to finish No. 1 overall in NBA All-Star game balloting.
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Five people are hurt as rival supporters clash in the capital of Senegal ahead of Sunday's presidential elections.
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Senegal on Monday defended the low poll turnout used by critics to question the legitimacy of weekend legislative elections, saying the west African nation had never had enthusiastic voters.
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Somali officials began counting votes  cast by lawmakers Sunday in a presidential election aimed at  returning national government to the chaotic Horn of Africa  state for the first time in 13 years.