Ex-mayor hits campaign trail 3 days before elections

Hillary Clinton embarks this week on her most high-profile tour since leaving the State Department, a cross-country bonanza where the American public and media will focus as much on her political future as her past.

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Results of Country's Elections Out in Four Days, Says Electoral Body
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — With the massive turn out and cast of votes on Sunday in Tanzania's presidential, general and local elections, votes are being counted with the Chairman, Tanzanian National Electoral Commission (NEC) retired Judge Damian Lubuva ...
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Tanzania awaits result of tense presidential pollDaily Mail
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Campaigning for Sudan’s presidential and parliamentary elections starts Tuesday with Omar al-Bashir facing little competition for the presidency, a multi-party boycott and the opposition and press facing mounting repression.

Why do they choose to throng the streets just to be part of the crowd escorting a Presidential candidate? Why do they flock the political rallies in their thousands just to listen to a presidential candidate? Probably the most agreeable response to these questions would be that these folks throng the political rallies because they feel angry, hungry and thirsty.

Eighteen shops and two vehicles were destroyed by fire after an oil tanker crashed onto an electricity pole as the driver was attempting to avoid hitting a bodaboda operator in Handeni Town.

Being a resident of Tabata who works in a company based in Tabata, irrigates my throat with yellowish liquids in a Tabata-located bar, sleeps and snores on a bed located in a room that belongs to a house in Tabata, and attends send-off (as opposed to send-away) parties in Tabata-hosted halls, I am literally cut off from the rest of Dar es Salaam.

Hot on the trail of space rocks: Scientists collect over 10,000 micrometeoroids in Antarctica  Daily Sabah

Dodoma gets new deputy mayor
Daily News
VIWANDANI Ward Councillor, Jaffari Mwanyemba (CCM) has been elected deputy mayor of Dodoma Municipality. He emerged the winner after scooping 45 votes out of 51 casted in the election conducted at the municipal offices here on Thursday evening.

Political junket for mayor?
Vallejo Times-Herald
The article on Feb. 15 about the mayor's Sister City trip to Tanzania hit a sore note with The United Democrats on human rights, and taxpayers with our money and how it is spent! I question the "pending good will trip" and the political attitudes and values of ...