Ghana votes in presidential poll
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Presidential elections are taking place in Ghana, which boasts political stability but much poverty.
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A few days ahead of Ghana's parliamentary and presidential elections, the State Department is warning U.S. citizens to use caution if traveling in the West African nation.
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Ghana&#39;s President John Kufuor won a second and final four-year mandate in the world&#39;s number two cocoa grower on Thursday after taking more than half the votes in the first round of a presidential poll.
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Some demographics and details of voter worries about the upcoming presidential election. The poll was taken Oct. 22-24 of 1,000 adults and 856 registered voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for the whole sample, slightly larger for subgroups:
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki leads Thursday's presidential election with 47.4 percent of the vote, versus 42.7 for opposition leader Raila Odinga, according to an exit poll by a local independent observer group.
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Hosts Ghana overcame the expulsion of skipper John Mensah to make it into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with Ivory Coast securing the other last four spot from Sunday's quarter-finals.
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GABORONE : Voters went to the polls in diamond-rich Botswana in elections that are expected to hand victory to the party in power since independence in 1966 in one of Africa&#39;s most stable countries.
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After decades of dictatorship and war, this massive nation in the heart of Africa chooses a new leader Sunday in its first multiparty presidential elections since winning independence nearly half a century ago.
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Namibians voted Monday to choose a successor to the only leader they have ever known, and election officials said the first of two days of voting for the president and parliament started smoothly.
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Ghanaians began to cast their votes on Tuesday morning for the fourth successive democratic elections since 1992, hoping the government for the next
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Ghanaians began to cast their votes on Tuesday morning for the fourth successive democratic elections since 1992, hoping the government for the next four years can bring about vigorous economic development to the politically stable west African country.
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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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Monday's vote is for the first president directly elected by the people of Indonesia.
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Moroccans voted on Friday in parliamentary polls expected to show gains for moderate Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message to voters seeking more vigorous efforts to fight poverty.
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Sierra Leone opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won the West African country's presidential election, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Monday.
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Voting begins in Niger's presidential elections, with the incumbent, Mamadou Tandja, expected to win.
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Mauritanians vote on Sunday to choose a civilian president, completing a handover of power by a military junta which took control of the Islamic state on the western edge of the Sahara in a 2005 coup.