An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

In 2002, the Committee adopted a responsum that provides an official religious-law foundation for its past actions and articulates the current Conservative approach to the role of women in Judaism.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

Christmas according to the Coptic calendar was adopted as an official national holiday in Egypt since 2002.

The Dar es Salaam Region had a population of 2, 497, 940 as of the official 2002 census.

On July 31, 2008, an unnamed former White House official alleged that the US had imprisoned and interrogated at least one suspect on Diego Garcia during 2002 and possibly 2003.

In 1998 net official development assistance was US $ 135. 8 million ; in 2002 it reached US $ 217. 6 million.

Languages spoken at home: French ( official ) 61. 1 %, Tahitian ( official ) 31. 4 %, Asian languages 1. 2 %, other 0. 3 %, unspecified 6 % ( 2002 )

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs ( CFPF ) per US $ 1 – 95. 89 ( 2005 ), 96. 04 ( 2004 ), 105. 66 ( 2003 ), 126. 71 ( 2002 ), 133. 26 ( 2001 ), 117. 67 ( January 2000 ), 111. 93 ( 1999 ), 107. 25 ( 1998 ), 106. 11 ( 1997 ), 93. 00 ( 1996 ), 90. 75 ( 1995 ); note-linked at the exact official rate of 0. 055 French francs to one Pacifique franc.

The state of Georgia declared grits its official prepared food in 2002.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

* 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6. 5 M < sub > w </ sub > strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1, 300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.

Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity, but once the official Kazaa client became more widespread, Kazaa developers used its automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol in February 2002, when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees.

The markka was replaced by the euro (€), which had been introduced, in cash form, on 1 January 2002, after a transitional period of three years when the euro was the official currency but only existed as ' book money '.

* 2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).

Hamaambo was the first to be laid to rest at the Heroes ' Acre memorial outside Windhoek, a few days after its official opening in 2002.

Prime Minister Helen Clark offered New Zealand's Chinese community an official apology for the poll tax on 12 February 2002.

In 2002, the CJLS adapted a responsum by Rabbi David Fine, Women and the Minyan, which provides an official religious-law foundation for these actions and explains the current Conservative approach to the role of women in prayer.

Between 1973 and 2002, the Conservative movement adapted changes through its official organizations, but without issuing explanatory opinions.

In 2002 the IHEU General Assembly unanimously adopted the Amsterdam Declaration, which represents the official defining statement of World Humanism for Humanists.

In 2002, the IHEU General Assembly unanimously adopted the Amsterdam Declaration 2002 which represents the official defining statement of World Humanism.

According to the last official count from 2002, Skopje has a population of 506, 926 inhabitants ; according to two unofficial estimates for more recent period, the city has a population of 668, 518 or 491, 000 inhabitants.

One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.

Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.

Many people believe that the fact that qualified commentators abroad were beginning to doubt the official Spanish version the very same day of the attacks while the government insisted on ETA's implication directly influenced the results of the election.

On 4 April 2011, a senior Haitian official announced that Michel Martelly had won the second round of the election against candidate Mirlande Manigat.

The United States extended official recognition after the first Israeli election, as Truman had promised, on 31 January 1949.

The presidential election that followed later in 2000 also was marred by irregularities and was not declared free and fair by international observers. In December 2001, through a constitutional amendment, the Russian language was given official status.

The Speaker is elected by the assembly and is the first official to be elected in the first sitting of the Legislative Assembly following an election.

Shortly after the 2005 federal election, Marianne Birthler, the official in charge of the Stasi archives, accused the Left Party of harboring at least seven former Stasi informants in its newly-elected parliamentary group.

After his election to the Académie française in 1925, Valéry became a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring Europe and giving lectures on cultural and social issues as well as assuming a number of official positions eagerly offered to him by an admiring French nation.

At the time of the election of Benedict XI, however, this status was not recognized, and the man the Roman Catholic Church officially considers the tenth true Pope Benedict took the official number XI, rather than X.

At the time of Boniface VIII's election, however, this was not recognized, and so the seventh true Pope Boniface took the official number VIII.

Although initially willing to stand in the 1984 elections, the UNO, headed by Arturo Cruz ( a former Sandinista ) declined participation in the elections based on their own objections to the restrictions placed on the electoral process by the State of Emergency and the official advisement of President Ronald Reagan's State Department, who feared that their participation would legitimize the election process.

On May 5, 2012, Gary Johnson received the Libertarian Party's official nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

The United States Reform Party nominated party founder Ross Perot of Texas in its first election as an official political party.

His election secured, Otto III and his mother, the Empress Theophanu, traveled north across the Alps heading for Aachen, the traditional coronation site for the Ottonians, in order for Otto III to be official crown as king.

Prior to his election as FIFA President, Blatter was a senior FIFA official for 23 years.

This relatively conservative legislature passed an early declaration of sovereignty ( November 16, 1988 ); a law on economic independence ( May 1989 ) confirmed by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union that November ; a language law making Estonian the official language ( January 1989 ); and local and republic election laws stipulating residency requirements for voting and candidacy ( August, November 1989 ).

When the official election results were announced on Monday 27 November 2006, preferential votes became known as well, showing that the second candidate on the list Rita Verdonk obtained more votes than the VVD's top candidate, Mark Rutte.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the African Union Commission praised the election for taking place with " calm and serenity " Prior to the 2009 election, Tunisia amended its constitution to allow more candidates to run for president, allowing the top official from each political party to compete for the presidency regardless of whether they held seats in parliament.

According to official results, he won the election with 54. 79 % of the vote in the first round ; his best results were in Antananarivo Province, where he received the support of 75. 39 % of voters.

The Basic Law of Hong Kong does not provide for official referendums, but the pan-democrats hope that by returning the resignees to the Legislative Council, on their manifesto of real political reform in Hong Kong and the abolition of functional constituencies, the election can be seen as a de-facto referendum and an endorsement of these issues.

He congratulated Yanukovych, followed shortly afterwards by Belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko, on his victory before election results were even made official and made statements opposing the rerun of the disputed second round of elections, won by Yanukovych, amid allegations of large-scale voting fraud.