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This marks the Social Democrats' fifth change of leadership in a little more than four years.
ANGOLA
Vote to Be Contested
The leader of Angola's largest opposition party said Sunday that he was contesting the results of the country's parliamentary election, which showed the ruling party MPLA headed for a landslide victory.
UNITA leader Isaias Samakuva said the two-day vote had been badly flawed, with polling stations opening late or not at all, and officials failing to properly confirm the identity of voters on registration lists.
"The facts suggest that the final results of this election might not rigorously reflect the wishes expressed in the ballot box by the Angolan people," Samakuva told reporters in the capital, Luanda.
Observers from the Pan-African Parliament, affiliated with the African Union, gave the election -- the country's first in 16 years -- the lukewarm endorsement of "credible" Sunday. But a European Union mission has raised concerns about irregularities.
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14 Pirates Captured Off Somalia
An unidentified warship off pirate-ridden Somali waters captured 14 pirates and destroyed their boat, a minister of the northern Puntland region said Sunday. Abdulqadir Muse Yusuf, fisheries minister for the region, said that the pirate vessel met a warship "that we think could be American" and that all the pirates on board were captured and their boat destroyed. The U.S. 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, said there was no American involvement. Somali gunmen are holding more than 10 ships for ransom at Eyl, a lawless former fishing outpost now used by gangs behind a sharp rise in sea attacks.
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