Abstract

A power-sharing deal was hammered out in Kenya after eight weeks of ethnic violence had threatened to tear the country apart. Opposition parties in Pakistan overwhelmingly defeated the allies of President Pervez Musharraf and a coalition government began to form between the party of the late Benazir Bhutto and her rival Nawaz Sharif, while secular parties won unexpected victories over Islamists. Former deputy president Jacob Zuma was elected leader of the African National Congress and became South Africa's likely next head of state. The Ugandan government signed a ceasefire with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. President Robert Mugabe faced opposition from within his own party in Zimbabwe's elections.

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