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More than 14,000 candidates are running in Iraq’s provincial elections scheduled for the end of the month. It’s the first time since 2005 that Iraqis are going to the polls. If the process isn’t seen as legitimate, Iraq’s fragile democracy could be threatened.
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On Dec. 29, Bangladesh voters will cast their ballots in the nation's first general election in seven years. The polls have been a focal point of the country's politics ever since a military intervention in January 2007, which postponed scheduled elections in order to end escalating violence between followers of two rival political parties.
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Adopting the soothing tones of an operator on an emergency hotline, Harriet Potakey, one of a score of controllers at Ghana’s election monitoring “command centre”, seeks to calm an excited caller.
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Ghanaians went to the polls on Sunday to choose the man who will succeed President John Kufuor, in an election that observers hope will show a beacon of stability in an African continent rife with conflict.
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NDI's senior associate for Africa Dr. Christopher Fomunyoh outlines the work done by the Institute with democrats in Africa in a video segment on Voice of America: In Focus.
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International Herald Tribune | Link to article »
That technological change is transforming economic and social relations in Africa has become something of a cliche and is often presented as a panacea for Africa's ills. Mobile-phones and the internet are being used to coordinate agricultural prices, transfer money and coordinate famine relief. However, the political impact of new technologies has received less attention.
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The governing party in oil-rich Angola won a landslide victory in the country’s first elections in 16 years, official results show, prompting a remarkable concession of defeat by the leading opposition party, which just six years ago was the government’s enemy in a brutal 27-year civil war.
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CGD and other organizations working to make the U.S. role in reducing global poverty part of the national debate in the 2008 presidential elections can claim some interim victories: the Democratic and Republican platforms both address the development implications not only of foreign assistance but also of trade and climate change...
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but what happens in the rest of the world doesn’t stay there and directly affects American lives according to several participants in roundtable discussions on international relations and global poverty at the Democratic National Convention.
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