Word: delayer
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Kenya's warring political factions finally agreed to the details of a power-sharing government on Sunday, after weeks of delay that had drawn the fury of foreign diplomats and regular Kenyans who had begun to doubt their leaders' commitment to resolving a political crisis that killed some 1,200 people. Said President Mwai Kibaki after the horse-trading was finalized: "Let us build a new Kenya where justice is our shield and defender and where peace and liberty and plenty will be found throughout the country...
...after an injury timeout in which junior Alex Vucovic stretched his back, Ermakov went down 3-5 in the second set and seemed shaken off his game. But he regrouped, returning to his aggressive groundstrokes in time to assure victory before the skies burst forth.After a half-hour delay and a relocation from the outdoor Beren Tennis Center to the enclosed Murr Tennis Center, Ermakov needed only a few more points to carry home a 6-1, 7-5 victory.No. 3 co-captain Dan Nguyen won his first set with relative ease, but eased up just enough in the second...
...Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa called a conference of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the Zambian capital Lusaka to discuss the delay in the release of results in Zimbabwe's presidential race. Though Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a parliamentary majority in the March 29 vote, the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) has not released the official result in the presidential race. An independent survey places Tsvangirai well ahead in the vote, and the MDC itself claims an outright victory after 28 years of Mugabe's rule...
...delay is widely seen as a stalling tactic by Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime to give its "shock troops," government-allied mobs known as the "war veterans," to fan out across the country, seize land and intimidate voters in the event of an eventual presidential run-off. Tsvangirai told TIME this week that what was happening in Zimbabwe was a "de facto military coup." Government spokesman Bright Matonga has countered - with no evidence to support his claims, however - that the veterans are trying to resist a program of land seizures by white farmers crossing into Zimbabwe from South Africa...
...Mugabe's Zanu-PF have demanded a recount even though the official result hasn't been released. Meanwhile, an opposition attempt to force the High Court to order the release of the results has so far served only to give the commission further grounds for delay. "The question of the results of the presidential election is now the subject of legal proceedings in the High Court," the ZEC said in a statement cited by the state-run Herald newspaper Friday. "Pending determination by that court, and in line with established rules of court, norms and procedures, the commission is unable...