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/ 5 November 2008
Kenyans in Obama’s homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the US president.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama rode a wave of voter discontent to a historic White House victory on Tuesday, promising change as the first black US president.
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/ 5 November 2008
If the United States needs a chief technology officer to drive broadband penetration, why don’t we?
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/ 4 November 2008
On one campaign flight in August, I was finally getting some rest when I was woken by a familiar baritone. I looked up, startled, to see Barack Obama.
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/ 4 November 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain faced the verdict of Americans voting on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle for the White House.
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/ 4 November 2008
The outcome of the United States presidential election is bound to have some effects on South Africa, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on
Tuesday.
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/ 4 November 2008
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain face the verdict of United States voters on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle.
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/ 4 November 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama issued a barnstorming call for change at his final campaign rally on Monday.
In 1992 Mark Higson, the UK foreign office official responsible for Iraq, appeared before an inquiry into arms sold illegally to Saddam Hussein.
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/ 3 November 2008
Barack Obama stood on the threshold of history on Monday as polls gave the Democrat a solid lead over John McCain on the last day of campaigning.
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/ 3 November 2008
Whether it’s Barack Obama or John McCain who makes it to the White House, the briefing the president gets on the economy will be a sombre affair.
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/ 3 November 2008
There is nothing unusual about mixed-race people in the South, although in decades past there was no ambiguity about the subject.
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/ 3 November 2008
For Kenyans, Obama has put their country on the world map, writes Nyokabi Baiya.
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/ 3 November 2008
With the United States election just around the corner, who’d want to be in the shoes of either front-runner Barack Obama or John McCain?
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/ 2 November 2008
Millions of Americans aren’t just redoing their hair for Palin — they’re taking off their clothes too.
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/ 2 November 2008
The radicalism of Barack Obama lies not in his policies but in his face, writes Mark Danner.
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/ 2 November 2008
Obama may have African roots, but Burundians disagree on his allegiances to the continent, writes Haydee Bangerezako.
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/ 2 November 2008
But a greater lesson lies in the US election,
writes C Don Adinuba.
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/ 2 November 2008
Americans choose on Tuesday between Barack Obama and John McCain in an epochal election that could enshrine their first black president.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain ramped up his attacks on Democratic rival Barack Obama on Saturday, describing his rival as stuck in the ”far left lane” of US politics.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain on Friday seized on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power in Ohio, a state critical to his hopes of clawing back Barack Obama’s lead.
Obama and McCain differ on the uses of American power, but who is the hawk and who is the dove, asks David E Sanger.
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/ 1 November 2008
It wasn’t easy. I didn’t get my absentee ballot in time so I called the consulate in Johannesburg to see what I could do.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign says Democratic voters are piling up imposing early voting totals in battleground states.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain are embarking on a frenzied, multi-state blitz over the final days of the election campaign.
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/ 31 October 2008
Not long ago it was fashionable to say that American elections didn’t matter much to the rest of the world. After eight years of George W Bush…
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/ 30 October 2008
Obama’s appeal rivals soccer in Uganda – and he’s had at least one road named after him.
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/ 30 October 2008
“We are longing to have Obama shirts or any kinds of things about him,” says Jeannine Ralaitafika, who sells shirts in Antananarivo.
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/ 30 October 2008
There might be little to choose for Africa between an Obama and a McCain presidency, but their differences on women’s rights do matter.
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/ 30 October 2008
Sierra Leonean support for Obama transcends age and religious differences, writes Olusegun Ogundeji.
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/ 30 October 2008
"Obama represents the unity of humanity. Dare I say it? This is a man who might go down in history as ‘Barack the Great’.”
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/ 30 October 2008
Manyo Benard reports on how “Obamania” has gripped Cameroon.