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Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa wins second term, opposition rejects result

Elections commission says Mnangagwa won 52.6 percent of the vote compared with 44 percent for challenger Nelson Chamisa. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won a second and final term in office in an outcome rejected by the opposition and questioned by observers. Mnangagwa, who took over from longtime leader Robert Mugabe after a 2017 army coup, was widely expected to secure re-election despite the country’s continuing economic crisis, with analysts saying […]

today27 August 2023

International News

Vote counting under way in historic Zimbabwe elections

Vote counting has started in Zimbabwe's first general election since long-term President Robert Mugabe was pushed out of office last year. Electoral officials said turnout at Monday's vote averaged 75 percent. "It is our view that the high voter turnout is indicative of the sound voter education and publicity conducted on a receptive electorate," Priscilla Chigumba, electoral commission chief, told reporters in the capital, Harare. More than five million people […]

today31 July 2018

International News

Voters cast ballots in landmark polls

Millions of Zimbabweans are heading to the polls to vote in the country's first elections since independence in 1980 without the name of long-time leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot. Polling stations opened at 7am (05:00 GMT) on Monday and will close at 7pm (17:00 GMT). More than five million Zimbabweans have registered to take part in the landmark elections and pick their next president and members of parliament. A […]

today30 July 2018

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