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• Zimbabwe police nab opposition MP amid crackdown

  - 2008-06-07

  HARARE AFP — Police in Zimbabwe on Saturday arrested an opposition MP for the second time in a week after the authorities forced presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to halt campaigning ahead of a June 27 run-off against President Robert Mugabe. Eric Matinenga has been charged with "incitement to public...

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• NBA commissioner won't sanction Thomas, Knicks

  - 2007-12-11

  NEW YORK AFP — New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas won't face punishment from the National Basketball Association over the sexual harassment case he settled on Monday. "In light of the settlement, which I strongly supported, I have decided to take no further action," NBA commissioner David Stern said...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Harassment, Litigation, NBA, settlement

• New York Knicks coach Thomas settles harassment suit

  - 2007-12-10

  NEW YORK AFP — New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden reached a settlement on Monday in the sexual harassment case filed by former employee Anuche Browne Sanders. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but a jury had previously ruled that Browne Sanders should receive...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Harassment, Litigation, marketing, NBA, settlement

• Corruption trial of top Israel lawmaker opens

  - 2006-10-17

  JERUSALEM AFP — The corruption trial of Tzahi Hanegbi, a top Israeli lawmaker and close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has opened behind closed doors in Jerusalem, judicial sources said. Hanegbi, chief of parliament's powerful foreign affairs and defense committee, is accused of corruption, fraud, abuse of authority and...

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• Liberia vote fraud hearings scuttled by legal wrangling

  - 2005-11-18

  MONROVIA AFP — Hearings into charges of vote fraud by Liberian presidential candidate George Weah bogged down even as his rival Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, poised to become Africa's first woman head of state, dismissed the claims as "bogus." Documents and witnesses supporting Weah's contention that the November 8 run-off...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, football, fraud, Government, Harassment, Litigation, NEC Corp.

• Sirleaf wins majority in Liberia presidential race

  - 2005-11-15

  MONROVIA AFP — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won nearly 60 percent of votes in Liberia's elections and was poised to become Africa's first elected woman president, it was announced, as a probe continued into claims of vote fraud from her rival, footballer George Weah. The National Elections Commission said preliminary...

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• Third day of protests and boycott threat over Liberian election

  - 2005-11-14

  MONROVIA AFP — The party of Liberian presidential candidate George Weah boosted protests against alleged vote fraud in last week's run-off, presenting their petition to the US embassy and vowing a legislative boycott. "There is a strong belief in Liberia today that the elections were rigged on behalf of...

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• Tense Azerbaijan goes to polls in key test of democracy

  - 2005-11-04

  BAKU AFP — Azerbaijan holds parliamentary elections Sunday amid opposition complaints of harassment, a warning by President Ilham Aliyev of coup plots and tension over possible fraud and post-election unrest. The election is seen as a key test of democracy in the oil-rich former Soviet republic, where no election...

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• US: No systemic fraud in Ethiopian elections

  - 2005-05-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States said the latest legislative elections in Ethiopia were fraught with multiple problems, but there was no evidence of systemic fraud. "Administrative and procedural irregularities such as ballot shortages, slow lines and problems with voter registration lists were observed in various locations, but didn't...

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• Togo court proclaims Gnassingbe winner of disputed presidential poll

  - 2005-05-03

  LOME AFP — Faure Gnassingbe was declared the official winner of Togo's April 24 election, succeeding his father as president of the west African country wracked by unrest that has killed at least 100 people in the last week and sent tens of thousands fleeing. "Having earned the largest...

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