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Guinea sets date for first democratic vote

Monday, 08 March 2010 15:43

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Guinea on Sunday set June 27 as the date for its first democratic election since independence in 1958 under a plan to put an end to military rule in the resource-rich west African nation.

"The transition president, interim president of the republic, sets the date of the first round of the presidential election for June 27," said a decree signed by the country's current leader General Sekouba Konate.

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Tags: Election - Sekouba Konate - Moussa Dadis Camara - National Transition Council - Rabiatou Serah Diallo - Independent National Electoral Commission - Ben Sekou Sylla - Guinea

Guinea sets date for first democratic vote

Monday, 08 March 2010 15:43

Guinea on Sunday set June 27 as the date for its first democratic election since independence in 1958 under a plan to put an end to military rule in the resource-rich west African nation.

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Tags: Election - Sekouba Konate - Moussa Dadis Camara - National Transition Council - Rabiatou Serah Diallo - Independent National Electoral Commission - Ben Sekou Sylla - Guinea

ECOWAS lauds Ivorian parties for resolving political crisis

Monday, 01 March 2010 14:11

West African regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday lauded government and opposition parties in Ivory Coast for agreeing on a new government and electoral body to resolve the country's political crisis.

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Tags: ECOWAS - parties - elections - government - democracy - Cote D'Ivoire

Sudan's SPLM reaches 'breakthrough deal' on poll

Monday, 01 March 2010 13:39

The main parties in north and south Sudan have reached a deal on the distribution of seats in parliament, ending a long deadlock.

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Tags: SPLM - Darfur - South - elections - civil war - referendum - Sudan

Guinea interim premier appoints transitional government

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:50

Guinea's interim prime minister has appointed a transitional government to lead the nation out of military rule, an official statement said.

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Tags: interim - leader - government - Prime Minister - Jean-Marie Dore - Guinea

Burkino Faso to hold November presidential polls

Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:38

Burkina Faso will hold presidential elections on November 21 this year, the government announced on Thursday.

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Tags: presidential - elections - democracy - president - Blaise Compaore - Burkino Faso

Madagascar's opposition groups back power-sharing deal

Monday, 08 February 2010 14:32

The three political groupings opposed to Madagascar's strongman Andry Rajoelina all said Friday they favour going ahead with the African Union's proposals to implement an August power-sharing deal.

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Tags: Andry Rajoelina - AU - Didier Ratsiraka - Albert Zafy - Marc Ravalomanana - agreement - power sharing - democracy - Madagascar

Troubled Chad moving to calmer phase: UN official

Friday, 20 November 2009 14:26

Chad, long racked by violence and poverty, seems to be moving into a calmer phase where its energies can be focused on development, the top United Nations official in the central African country said on Wednesday.

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Tags: Michele Falavigna - UN - development - humanitarian - programme - Sudan - Chad

Guebuza re-elected in Mozambique election

Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:02

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza won a resounding general election victory, officials said on Wednesday, with his Frelimo party capturing enough parliamentary seats to change the constitution at will.

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Tags: peace - democracy - Armando Guebuza - National Elections Commission - Frelimo - Renamo - elections - Mozambique

Mozambique sees huge youth turnout in elections

Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:39

Mozambicans voted yesterday in elections reported to have had a massive youth turnout. The polls opened at 7am with some people lining up in long queues even hours before the voting process started.

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Tags: vote - democracy - youth - polls - Mozambique

Botswana praised for holding peaceful elections

Monday, 19 October 2009 12:19

Botswana's ruling party on Sunday savoured a decisive poll victory that handed President Ian Khama another five years in power despite economic woes in the world's biggest diamond producer. The Botswana Democratic Party took 45 of the 57 seats.

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Tags: president - Ian Khama - elections - diamonds - Botswana Democratic Party - Southern African Development Community - Henrique Banze - Botswana

Bashir pledges free Sudan vote in 2010

Friday, 02 October 2009 13:25

President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday said he supported a "democratic transformation" in Sudan and promised that general elections scheduled for next year would be free and fair.

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Tags: Omar al-Bashir - elections - free - fair - National Congress Party - peace - Sudan

Prospects for elections in Côte d'Ivoire brighten

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:17

Prospects for Cote d'Ivoire's belated presidential elections being held on November 29 looked brighter with the completion of the contested provisional voter registration list on Saturday.

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Tags: elections - vote - registration - Jean Baptiste Gomis - SAGEM - France - Cote D'Ivoire

Madagascar army satisfied with power-sharing deal

Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:33

Madagascar's army chief said on Wednesday he was satisfied with a power-sharing deal struck by the Indian Ocean island's feuding politicians last weekend after months of turmoil.

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Tags: military - agreement - Andry Rajoelina - Marc Ravalomanana - Madagascar

Ghana to implement hi-tech voting system by 2012

Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:14

The Ghanaian government is aiming to implement biometric voting systems for the 2016 general elections. The system uses advanced fingerprint technology to register voters and ensure that the ballots are electronically processed and stored.

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Tags: biometric voting system - elections - governance - Haruna Iddrisu - Geraldine Fraser-Moloketi - Ghana

Congo's Kabila cleans out judiciary in graft swoop

Friday, 17 July 2009 12:51

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila has sacked one in 10 of his country's judges and prosecutors to try to stamp out corruption in the judiciary, Congo's justice minister said on Thursday.

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Tags: corruption - graft - Joseph Kabila - Supreme Court - Luzolo Bambi Lessa - judiciary - fired - Democratic Republic of Congo

Nigeria rebel leader accepts government amnesty

Thursday, 09 July 2009 17:46

Nigerian militant leader Henry Okah, who is on trial for gun-running and treason, has accepted a government offer for "unconditional" amnesty, his lawyer said on Thursday.

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Tags: militant - Niger Delta - oil - rebels - amnesty - Henry Okah - Nigeria

Rwanda: 5 million voters registered for 2010 polls

Monday, 06 July 2009 11:43

The number of Rwandans ready to cast their votes in the forthcoming 2010 Presidential elections has hiked by over half a million compared to last year's figures for the parliamentary polls.

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Tags: five million - registered - voters - 2010 Presidential Elections - National Electoral Commission - Charles Munyaneza - Rwanda

Amnesty International praises Togo

Friday, 26 June 2009 19:24

Amnesty International has praised Togo's decision to abolish the death penalty, following a unanimous vote by the national assembly earlier this week.

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Tags: Amnesty International - African Union - death penalty - abolish - Togo

Nigeria marks ten years of democracy

Friday, 29 May 2009 15:13

A decade after Nigeria's last military ruler ordered his troops to "forever resist the seduction and temptation of political power", democracy still has a fragile hold on Africa's most populous nation.

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Uganda's opposition calls for electoral reform

Friday, 15 May 2009 11:18

Uganda's opposition parties are demanding reforms in the electoral commission as the country prepares for the presidential polls in 2011.

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