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While officials from each region of Guinea voted, Fifa refused to accept the results because only the sacked executive had the authority to organise elections.
BBC: Fifa confirm Guinea ban
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Fifa says it called for an emergency council meeting to approve the move, or to organise elections, but instead of one meeting each grouping organised its own gathering.
BBC: Fifa warns Zambia of consequences of dispute within FAZ
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Though some of his officials are taking a more conciliatory line, Mr Chavez himself has shown no signs of backing down from his plan to approve a new trade-union law, and then to organise elections for union leaders.
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The regional grouping Ecowas said after an emergency summit that it expected both countries to organise presidential elections within the next 12 months.
BBC: Uniform of an Ecowas commander
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The Serbian authorities have stepped back from trying to organise local elections for Serbs there, though two municipalities in the Serb-controlled north may still hold them.
ECONOMIST: Serbia��s elections
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Mr Ivanov said the decision had been taken in response to requests from people living in the North Caucasus, who had asked Moscow not to organise fresh elections in Chechnya.
BBC: Direct rule in Chechnya
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"We will organise the elections throughout the national territory in order to reunite the minds of Malians, reunite their hearts, and to enable Mali to remain one and indivisible, " Territorial Administration Minister Moussa Sinko Coulibaly told a news conference in the capital, Bamako, on Thursday.
BBC: Mali sets 7 July election date, says minister
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"It's the aid, it's the help to organise free and fair elections - because it's political stability after the military phase that is actually the best antidote against extremism, " he said.
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The day before the vote, the township party leader who had tried to organise the ballot was placed under house arrest and the elections were cancelled.
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The rebels accuse Mr Deby of being a dictator and say they want to organise a national forum that will lead to a transitional government and on to democratic elections.
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