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President Eduard Shevardnadze easily won a landslide re-election victory with a huge majority. Shevardnadze, who first gained international attention as Soviet Foreign Minister under Mikhail Gorbachev, has been criticized for failing to revive the Georgian economy, but had now promised to tackle the economic problems, widespread unemployment and poverty during his second five-year term.
There have been angry protests in Peru's capital, Lima, after opposition presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo led a march in protest at alleged electoral fraud by the incumbent, Alberto Fujimori.
During a recent visit to Washington and despite an impasse in cease-fire talks between Eritrea and Ethiopia, Eritrean President Issaias Afwerki, said he would allow its Red Sea ports to be used to transport international food aid to land-locked Ethiopia, where drought threatens as many as 12 million people with famine.
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