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Polls Close After Zim Runoff
Polls have closed in Zimbabwe, after a presidential runoff widely dismissed as a charade to keep President Robert Mugabe in power.I'm so excited! I just can't wait to find out who won! Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from the poll earlier this week, saying violence against his supporters made the election impossible. In an interview Friday with VOA English to Africa, he denounced the runoff as a "one-man race whose outcome is already known." Many residents of the capital, Harare, said ruling party militia threatened them with harm if they did not vote. Witnesses say turnout was strong at two Harare polling stations, Mbare and Harare South, but that other stations saw only a trickle of voters. Posted by: Fred 2008-06-27 |
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