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Lawyers for President John Mahama as well as the National Democratic Congress are filing their affidavits at the Supreme Court in readiness for the substantive hearing of the election petition which begins tomorrow. We are presently, at the court filing the affidavits, a member of the legal team of the NDC Victor Kojogah Adawudu confirmed in an interview with Myjoyonline.com,
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SEVERAL electoral petitions are lined up in Nyanza after hotly contested battles pitting ODM candidates against their Cord affiliated rivals. Yesterday, several candidates protested the results. They include those who ran for county representative, MP and governor. In Kisumu Town West Constituency, a commissioner with the defunct Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission Rosa Buyu rejected the results citing anomalies. Buyu
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The president of Madagascar's transitional government, Andry Rajoelina, has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Marc Ravalomanana and has announced he will not run in the upcoming presidential elections. However, L'Express de Madagascar reports from Antananarivo that it remains to be seen whether the crisis triggered by Rajoelina's seizure of power from Ravalomanana nearly four years ago has finally
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Pressure has begun mounting on the leader of the Congress for Democratic Change or CDC George Weah to either relinquish his role as standard bearer of his party or resign his newly appointed position as Peace Ambassador. George Weah was appointed in December, 2012, by President Sirleaf to head the country's reconciliation process, months after fellow Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee
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Ghana’s ex-first lady has failed to get her name on the ballot for this week’s presidential polls, but has still managed to roil politics and spark endless guessing over her husband Jerry Rawlings’ intentions. Nana Konadu Rawlings has undoubtedly shown ambition in her own right, initially challenging late president John Atta Mills in a 2011 ruling party primary — which
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Three presidential candidates have resumed rigorous campaigning in the regions, as they approach the homestretch of the December polls, after suspending their political campaign to commiserate with victims of the Achimota Melcom supermarket disaster. President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress ((NDC),Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party(NPP)and Dr.Michael Abu Sakara of the Covention People's Party (CPP)
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It is exactly 46 days to the December 7 elections but there are strong indications that the electorate had been bombarded with avalanche of promises which is making them wonder which of the political parties would make the most of promises in the few weeks left. The four major political parties namely, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic
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The dreams of former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, leader of the newly formed National Democratic Congress to contest this year's presidential elections on the ticket of the newly formed National Democratic Party hit a snag, after she failed to meet the EC's criteria by the close of nominations yesterday. The electoral Commission disqualified Nana Konadu for failing to
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Kumasi - The wife of Ghana's ex-leader Jerry Rawlings was nominated as a presidential candidate by an upstart political party on Saturday, highlighting divisions in the ruling NDC ahead of December polls. Nana Konadu Agyemang had sought to run on the National Democratic Congress party ticket, but was trounced in a 2011 primary battle by John Atta Mills, Ghana's then-president
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The National Democratic Party (NDP) has received its official certification from the Electoral Commission. The party will subsequently hold a press conference to outline its plans and programs towards the upcoming December polls. Interim General Secretary of the party, Dr. Josiah Ayeh in an interview with XYZ News rejected claims that the demise of President Mills will affect NDP’s drive
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The National Executive Council (NEC) of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), at an emergency meeting today following the demise of Professor John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday July 24, has set September 1 as the date the party would go for congress. But the NDC has already endorsed President John Dramani Mahama as the candidate for the December general
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After Badmouthing Govt in far-away Equatorial Guinea -Party to decide on his fate National Democratic Congress (NDC) founder, Jerry John Rawlings risks being stripped of his title and expelled from the party following his recent disparaging remarks calculated at destroying the government and country’s international goodwill and image as an emerging democracy, in far-away Equatorial Guinea. The Al-Hajj can state
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Cairo — Campaign of presidential candidate Hisham Bastawisi denied reports that he may withdraw for another candidate, insisting on his intention to run the race until the end. "We insist on our commitment to our principles and not giving up on them under any circumstances, and we are counting on the awareness of the Egyptian people in electing a candidate",
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Algiers - Algeria's historical ruling party won 220 of the 462 seats up for grabs in the legislative polls while moderate Islamists suffered a setback, according to official results released on Friday. The National Liberation Front improved its share of power from 136 to 220 seats in the national assembly, which was enlarged from 389 to 462, Interior Minister Daho
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Bujumbura — Tension is mounting on Burundi's political scene. Opposition parties continue to contest results of the 2010 presidential elections and recently condemned a series of laws seen as a government control tactic. Meanwhile, civil society just wants some democracy. Burundi currently has 44 political parties for a population estimated at 8.5 million. The political parties that withdrew from the
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Lusaka - Zambia's former ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) won a temporary reprieve Friday after a high court ruled that its dissolution could only be determined by a court. "The court has granted our party the MMD a stay of execution and I wish to call upon our members to remain calm and united as everything is under control,"
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The MDC-T says it will go it alone if Zanu PF decides to pull out of the coalition government in the hope of forcing early elections before the implementation of reforms as required under the Global Political Agreement (GPA). But Zanu PF, which has on several occasions threatened to pull out of the government of national unity (GNU) and call
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Dakar - Senegal's opposition joined forces Sunday in a mass rally to block 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade from landing a third term in office and back challenger Macky Sall. Thousands gathered in the capital in a rally attended by the 12 presidential candidates who fell out of the running in February 26 polls and have formed a coalition they hope
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Banjul - Six Gambian opposition parties said on Thursday they will boycott a parliamentary election due to be held later this month, saying it would not be transparent and urging mediators to secure a postponement of the vote. The group boycotting the poll includes the UDP party, the main opposition to President Yahya Jammeh. However, the second-largest rival NRP has
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After weeks of violent protests against The Incumbent's (President Abdoulaye Wade) third term the Senegalese have finally cast their votes in peace. A peaceful polling day highlights the democratic maturity of the Senegalese people who understood that casting a vote is the ultimate channel through which citizens can express their voice, more powerful than protests and demonstrations. If Senegal has
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Senegal's music icon Youssou Ndour on Thursday threw his weight behind presidential hopeful Macky Sall in his bid to thwart Abdoulaye Wade's bid to win a third term in a run-off election this month. Speaking after a meeting with Sall, Ndour said that nearly 70 percent of voters had shown they wanted to see the back of the 85-year-old when
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President John Evans Atta Mills is a slight favourite in the upcoming December Presidential election, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a specialist publishing company in the United Kingdom, has said. In its country report released on Ghana in January this year, it said the favourable economic picture of high growth and relatively low inflation was certain to inure to the
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Harare — PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the constitutional plebiscite. The Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) is currently engrossed in the crafting of a new supreme law, with frequent misunderstandings delaying progress. But now, time
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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has dismissed opposition to his third-term candidature, which has turned violent, as a light breeze, according to media reports on Thursday. "A breeze is a light wind which rustles the leaves of a tree, but never becomes a hurricane," Wade said Wednesday during a ceremony in Dakar. The comments headlined in several daily newspapers and were
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DR Congo President Joseph Kabila's party and its allies won a parliamentary majority in November elections, results showed Thursday, some two months after polls slammed by the opposition and observers. The ruling People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and its allies captured an absolute majority of about 260 seats in the 500-seat National Assembly while the opposition took about
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