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Voters were proving they are less likely to buy into lofty political promises and past achievements and were more interested in action and the betterment of their future, the organisers of nationwide commune election debates said yesterday.

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On All Things Considered today, NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson will look ahead to Egypt's first free presidential election — voting begins Wednesday and is expected to lead to a mid-June runoff — and how some Egyptians who played roles in last year's revolution there are refusing to take part because they don't trust the military leaders who run the country.

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Over 20 Yemeni reporters took part in a training workshop that runs from May 19 to 21 at the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a US-funded organization.

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The results from the first democratic elections to take place in Benghazi for more than four decades were announced this evening by the head of Benghazi’s electoral commission, Suleiman Zubi. He said that 138,312 people had voted.

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The final results in Algeria’s parliamentary elections confirm an overpowering victory for the national liberation front (NLF) who will dominate the future parliament with 220 representatives. Polls opened across Algeria at 8am Thursday (May 10th), with nearly 21 million voters expected to take part in the historic legislative election.

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The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has ended a two-day capacity building training workshop for women candidates intending to contest in the multi-tier November 17th elections at the Holy Trinity Parish Hall in
Kenema City.

Programme Officer for NDI, Mohamed Konneh said the training is a nationwide program organized in the eastern region for women representing the eight political parties in Kono, Kailahun and Kenema districts.

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Algerians will be voting for a new parliament on 10 May. The big question is whether this election will turn out to be as free and successful as the recent ones in neighbouring Tunisia and Morocco.

Forty-four political parties and 7,646 candidates are battling for 462 seats. By having so many contenders, the government is hoping that Islamist parties will be squeezed.

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Candidates from all 10 political parties competing in the June 3 commune elections will vie for voter support in a series of commune-level debates intended to better inform voters, debate organisers said yesterday.

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Kenya is ready for the next General Election, that’s the verdict of the National Democratic Institute. A report by a delegation that has been studying Kenya’s situation however warns that the politicization of the ICC process remains a risk to peaceful elections.

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A week -long forum of the West Africa Election Observer’s Network (WEAON) over the weekend ended in Monrovia, bringing together participants from several African nations including Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone and host Liberia.