In Guinea-Bissau's first multiparty elections held in 1994, RGB-MB presidential candidate Domingos Fernandes won 17. 44 % of the vote ( finishing third out of eight candidates ).

Guinea-Bissau's transition back to democracy has been complicated by a crippled economy devastated by civil war and the military's predilection for governmental meddling.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for sanctions against those involved in Guinea-Bissau's drugs trade.

Vieira was killed by soldiers on 2 March 2009, apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed Guinea-Bissau's military chief General Batista Tagme Na Waie.

The caretaker government has managed to improve Guinea-Bissau's human rights record, as evidenced in the most recent U. S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices entry for Guinea-Bissau ( released 28 February 2005, which says " The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens ; however, there were problems in some areas ".

* Guinea-Bissau's new president, Joao Bernardo Vieira, announces the dissolution of the government headed by his rival Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior.

Simultaneously, forty military officers, including Zamora Induta, head of Guinea-Bissau's armed forces, were being held at an army base.

Simultaneously, forty military officers, including the head of Guinea-Bissau's armed forces were being held at an army base.

Beginning on 25 June, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade held separate meetings with the three main candidates ; Wade said that he was mediating at the request of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) and was not interfering in Guinea-Bissau's affairs.

Planes fly in, and sometimes use Guinea-Bissau's 88 remote islands, the majority of which are uninhabited.

Dabó's record producer was Zé Carlos, who had formed the most popular band in Guinea-Bissau's history, Cobiana Djazz, in 1972.

These early bands, and others like Africa Livre, Chifre Preto and Kapa Negra, had a stormy relationship with Guinea-Bissau's dictatorial government.

Portuguese Creoles are the mother tongue of Cape Verde ( it also has a largest number of standard Portuguese speakers ) and Guinea-Bissau's population.

He was assassinated on 20 January 1973, about 8 months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence.

Vieira was a member of the Papel ethnic group, which comprises approximately 5 % of Guinea-Bissau's population.

By contrast, most of Guinea-Bissau's army officers, with whom Vieira had a tense relationship throughout his career, are members of the Balanta ethnicity, which dominates the country.

It covers an area of 9, 150 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, making it the largest of Guinea-Bissau's administrative regions.

Guinea-Bissau's Co Cipriano won the game with a 60th minute penalty to make it 3-2.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

Déby won the country ’ s first multi-party presidential elections with support in the second round from opposition leader Kebzabo, defeating General Kamougue ( leader of the 1975 coup against Tombalbaye ).

In 1991, following growing pressure for a more pluralistic society, multi-party elections were held for the first time.

On 22 April and 7 May 1990, the first free multi-party elections were held in Croatia.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

A constitution was approved by voters and on 30 July 2006 the Congo held its first multi-party elections since independence in 1960.

Zenawi's government was re-elected in 2000 in Ethiopia's first multi-party elections.

Sweeping political reforms in 1990 led to a new constitution, and the PDG garnered a large majority in the country's first multi-party elections in 30 years.

After a peaceful transition, the elections produced the first representative, multi-party, National Assembly.

Despite further anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multi-party National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September-October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.

It leaves unanswered, however, the question of when and how Malaysia will acquire a first world political system ( a multi-party democracy, a free press, an independent judiciary and the restoration of civil and political liberties ) to go with its new economic maturity.

The first multi-party elections were held on 11 and 25 November and 9 December 1990.

Malaysia has a multi-party system since the first direct election of the Federal Legislative Council of Malaya in 1955 on a first-past-the-post basis.

The 2009 elections were the first multi-party elections in the country.

A new Constitution was ratified in August 2008, paving the way for the country's first multi-party presidential election two months later.

On October 8, 2008, the country held its first ever multi-party presidential election.

In 1992, Alpha Oumar Konaré won Mali's first democratic, multi-party presidential election, before being re-elected for a second term in 1997, which was the last allowed under the constitution.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

Mongolia's first multi-party elections for a People's Great Khural were held on 29 July 1990.

* 1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.

* 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.

In addition, a new regional constitution was drafted and later passed on 15 June 2009, which is believed to represent a significant step toward the eventual introduction of a multi-party political system to the region for the first time ; such a system already exists in the adjacent Somaliland region.

It was the first time since the multi-party system was introduced in Zanzibar that CUF agreed to recognize Karume as the legitimate president of Zanzibar.