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  • Gadhafi would need to "step aside" in order for Libya to regain the trust of the international community, though he also said the longserving leader might be able to retain a role in the government.

    Washington Says It Knew of Ex-Diplomat's Libya Meet Jay Solomon 2011

  • Even so, there is the possibility Mr. Mugabe, the country's longserving president, will still lose.

    Mugabe Goodbye? 2008

  • Mugabe May Be Looking for Exit Independent observers said Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the most votes in the presidential race, not enough to avoid a runoff, but enough to humiliate the longserving Robert Mugabe.

    Looking for Bottom 2008

  • Zimbabwe's veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai Sunday vowed to remove the country's longserving President Robert Mugabe through a mass but peaceful campaign.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Guebuza, who took over at the start of the year from longserving leader Joaquim Chissano, would devote 65 percent of the state budget to fight crippling poverty.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Mozambique's new President Armando Guebuza, who took over the reins from longserving leader Joaquim Chissano in January, has launched a call for a revamp of the judiciary, which is grappling with only 1,065 officials, only three percent of whom have had proper training.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Zimbabweans toiling under the "oppression" of longserving

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • African country to elect a successor to longserving head of state

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • Change (MDC) and a constant thorn in the side of Zimbabwe's longserving ruler President Robert Mugabe, will on Friday learn of his fate for allegedly plotting to kill the head of state.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • The new constitution adopted Tuesday will come into force after elections on December 1-2 to elect a successor to longserving

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

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