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Opposition leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo has won presidential elections in the volatile West African state of Guinea-Bissau, picking up 53.55 per cent of votes, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced Wednesday. His rival Domingos Simoes Pereira, head of the country’s historic ruling party PAIGC, took 46.45 percent in Sunday’s runoff. “I declare Umaro Sissoco Embalo
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Guinea-Bissau citizens return to poll on Sunday to decide their president with the hope of ending months of political turmoil in the coup-prone West African state that is one of the world’s poorest nations. Some 700,000 registered voters have a choice between two former prime ministers — Domingos Simoes Pereira, from the traditional ruling PAIGC
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Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has been re-elected for a second term, the country’s electoral commission says. Mr Geingob polled 56.3% in Wednesday’s election, well ahead of his nearest rival Panduleni Itula with 29.4%. However, Mr Geingob’s tally was well down from the 87% with which he won his first term in 2014. He went on
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Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters marched on Friday to demand that a presidential election next month be canceled until the old ruling guard step aside and the army quit politics. The marches, held in cities and towns across the country, marked the 41st consecutive weekly protest of a movement that has already forced the
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Congratulates Buhari, APC on Supreme Court Victory By Henry Umoru – Abuja President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, said that on Tuesday unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court has removed whatever doubt that might have been raised on the integrity of the February 23 Presidential election. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by his
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The Afghan Taliban on Thursday ordered its fighters to use all means at their disposal to disrupt a presidential election taking place in the country later this week. The militant group said it would attack security forces at polling stations and block roads to disrupt voting. It added that in order to remain safe, residents
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Seven million Tunisians headed to the polls on Sunday in the country’s second presidential election since its 2011 revolution, faced with a crowded list of candidates, uncertainty and widespread disillusion over the country’s progress in the past eight years. Twenty-six candidates are running in the unpredictable first round. They include the media mogul Nabil Karoui,
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ABUJA- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday, said Nigerians expect the nation’s judiciary to do justice in the Presidential election petition brought before it by its candidate in the February 23 poll, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
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A witness, Mr Mohammed Tata, on Monday, alleged that he was compelled under duress to sign result of the presidential election in his polling unit. The witness who served as an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Jigawa State, told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that he was threatened to
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The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, granted President Muhammadul Buhari’s request to be allowed to amend his reply to the petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge his re-election.
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