United Kingdom : On Sunday the former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe dramatically weighed in on Monday’s elections, vowing to vote for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and by so doing inviting thousands of his loyalists to do the same. Just a few hours
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has claimed he is “winning resoundingly”, as counting of votes in the country’s election continued. Chamisa said in a 5 am tweet “We now have results from the majority of over 10 000 polling stations. We’ve done exceedingly well. Awaiting ZEC to perform their constitutional duty to officially announce the people’s election
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Voters are casting their ballots in the country’s first election since the authoritarian leader was ousted last year. Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s former ally in the ruling Zanu-PF party, faces Nelson Chamisa of the MDC Alliance in a historic vote for the southern African nation
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HARARE: Zimbabwe’s historic election on Monday is likely to be flawed and the opposition will launch peaceful protests if President Emmerson Mnangagwa wins in a disputed vote, the main opposition leader said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. The 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change party, said the electoral
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The United States has made it clear it supports the Zimbabwean people’s desire to determine their future through a free, fair, and credible election on July 30. The United States embassy in a statement said ‘At the Zimbabwean government’s invitation, twenty teams from the Embassy will be in the field observing polling throughout Zimbabwe. They have
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Douglas Mwonzora says Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) rejected suggestions by the main opposition to have samples of the inedible ink set to be used for Monday’s election tested on a prisoner’s finger. He was speaking at a public meeting Thursday, which was called to discuss the country’s elections. “We also wanted to test the ink,
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THE MDC Alliance led Nelson Chamisa has trained and deployed 44,000 election agents, the party’s president said on Thursday. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) says voting will take place across 11,000 polling stations on election day on Monday. Fearful of rigging by the ZEC and Zanu PF, the MDC is deploying an average of three
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For every election over those last 37 years‚ Mugabe had dominated. Now‚ in his absence‚ and his absence – and that of his closest lieutenants purged by Zanu PF last November – has meant a rise of new candidates vying for office in the election. This publication’s team on the ground in Zimbabwe explain below
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Durban – Zimbabweans living in Durban have expressed optimism at the prospect of returning home to vote in the country’s first elections that would not feature former president Robert Mugabe. The 94-year-old had been the country’s president for more than 35 years and his reign ended last year in what is believed to have been
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In Nyatsime village outside Harare, European Union election observers go from home to home collecting detailed survey answers — their first mission to Zimbabwe for 16 years since being abruptly expelled. In 2002, the head of the EU election mission was thrown out on the eve of a violence-tainted election that kept Robert Mugabe in
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