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• Voting gets underway in SLeone local elections

  - 2008-07-05

  FREETOWN AFP — Voting in Sierra Leone's local elections, seen as a popularity test for president Ernest Koroma, got underway in Freetown Saturday under heavy police presence after a campaign marred by violence. The voting got off to a slow start with not many people queueing up in the...

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• Sierra Leone's new president vows to heal war wounds

  - 2007-09-17

  FREETOWN AFP — Ernest Bai Koroma took oath Monday as Sierra Leone's new president after winning a tense runoff vote and vowed to wipe out graft and heal deep wounds in the impoverished war-scarred west African nation. Koroma, 53, an opposition candidate who defeated outgoing vice president Solomon Berewa,...

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• Sierra Leone's rivals claim early lead in presidential run-off

  - 2007-09-10

  FREETOWN AFP — Parties of the two candidates in Sierra's Leone's presidential race both claimed an early lead on Monday as the poor and war-scarred west African country awaited official results from Saturday's vote. According to partial unofficial results from more than a third of polling stations, opposition candidate...

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• Sierra Leone heads for presidential run-off

  - 2007-08-20

  FREETOWN AFP — Sierra Leone's vice president and its main opposition leader will square off in a second round of historic presidential polls after a first round failed to produce a winner, results showed Monday. With 93 percent of the ballots counted, Ernest Koroma of the main opposition All...

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• Observers praise Sierra Leone vote as parties trade allegations

  - 2007-08-12

  FREETOWN AFP — Sierra Leone's watershed presidential and legislative elections were free and fair, international observers said Sunday despite allegations of violence and vote-rigging from the main parties. A day after the first post-war Sierra Leonean-driven elections, seen as a test of whether the nation has fully emerged from...

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• Five Euro tour spots up for grabs, says Wallabies' coach

  - 2006-09-22

  SYDNEY AFP — Five places on the Wallabies' touring team to Europe will be up for grabs in this weekend's final round of the Australian Provincial Championship, coach John Connolly said. The selectors will meet next weekend after the APC final and name a 37-man squad. Skipper and scrum-half George...

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• Israeli APC blown up, five Palestinians killed in fierce Gaza clashes

  - 2004-05-11

  GAZA CITY AFP ? The Islamist movement Hamas dealt the Israeli army one of its heaviest losses in months during fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip, which came as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was trying to salvage a plan to pull out of the territory. Hamas' armed wing...

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• Six Israeli troops, five Palestinians killed in Gaza violence

  - 2004-05-11

  GAZA CITY AFP ? Six Israeli soldiers were killed when their troop transport was blown up during an army raid into Gaza City which also left five Palestinians dead and scores wounded. The destruction of the armoured personnel carrier of the engineering corps was one of the single heaviest...

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