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General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2002. [1] Voters elected the president, members of the National Assembly and local officials. Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) was elected, defeating Uhuru Kenyatta of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and Simeon Nyachae of FORD–People.
2002–2003 Lithuanian presidential election; 2002 Macedonian parliamentary election; 2002 Montenegrin parliamentary election; 2002 Montenegrin presidential election; 2002 Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election; 2002 Portuguese legislative election; December 2002 Serbian presidential election; Serbian presidential election, September–October 2002
Pape Diop (born 17 April 1954 [1] [2] [3]) is a Senegalese politician and a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) who was President of the Senate of Senegal from 2007 to 2012. He was Mayor of Dakar, the capital city, from 2002 to 2009, as well as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007. [4] Diop was born in Dakar.
A run-off election was held on 29 October 2006. On November 11, with 65% of the votes counted and Kabila holding the lead with 61% to Bemba's 39%, and with some of Bemba's supporters claiming election fraud, fighting again broke out in the streets of Kinshasa between soldiers supporting each candidate, killing two civilians. [citation needed]
In the second round of the French presidential election, Jacques Chirac is reelected. Burkina Faso, parliamentary; May 12 – Mali, presidential (run-off) May 14 – Sierra Leone, parliamentary and presidential; May 15 – Dutch general election, 2002: The CDA has become the largest party and the right-wing LPF became the third
Iba Der Thiam, also known as I. D. Thiam (26 February 1937 – 31 October 2020 [1] [2]), was a Senegalese writer, historian, and politician. He served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Education from 1983 to 1988; later, he was First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Senegal from 2001 to 2012.
After leaving office as President of Senegal, he was unanimously elected as Secretary-General of La Francophonie at that organization's Ninth Summit on 20 October 2002 in Beirut, [13] [14] following the withdrawal of the only other candidate, Henri Lopes of the Republic of the Congo. [13] [15] Diouf took office as Secretary-General on 1 January ...
In 2019, which was the first Dakar Rally to be held in just one country (Peru), Toyota won for the first time with Nasser Al-Attiyah (in his third victory with three different manufacturers). The bike category saw the KTM works team rider, Australian Toby Price, take his first Dakar victory, winning his second title in 2019.