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...institution that has run our country for the last 30 years. And look at the results: unprecedented levels of decay and misrule and repression. So he should be accountable." - Blasting Robert Mugabe and the ZANU-PF's refusal to release results of the Mar. 29 presidential election (Voice of America News, April...
...white commercial farmers. The following year, the MDC helped defeat a constitutional reform bill that would have extended Mugabe's rule and appropriated farms from white landowners - Mugabe's first electoral defeat. In the June 2000 parliamentary elections, the MDC won almost as many seats as Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, despite a series of attacks that left nearly 30 supporters dead...
...regime and Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is unlikely to be cured by a few fine words. Mugabe's security forces have spent the past nine years beating and killing members of the MDC. After a general election on March 29, 2008, which the ruling Zanu-PF lost and in which Mugabe came in second to Tsvangirai in the presidential vote, security forces and their allies killed nearly 200 activists and injured thousands more in a campaign of terrorism across the country. Tsvangirai himself has been beaten more than once. Even after Mugabe and Tsvangirai agreed in principle...
...been almost 10 months since Zimbabwe's opposition beat Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwean African National-Popular Front (Zanu-PF) in a general election. Mugabe refused to accept the outcome, calling it a "mistake," and unleashed a wave of violence against MDC supporters. After winning a run-off against Tsvangirai - the MDC leader had withdrawn in the face of the violence - Mugabe unexpectedly announced his intention to share power. Ever since, the two sides have been deadlocked in negotiations over how that might be accomplished. In the meantime, Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis has sharply deteriorated. Inflation has spiraled...
...contrast, a Zanu-PF politburo member was delighted by the outcome. "[This] will take the country forward," he said. "It is the best way for Zimbabwe." As for what that way forward might be, deputy information minister Bright Matonga told the BBC: "There is not going to be any negotiations. I think that process is done, concluded ... and the President will form a new cabinet." - With reporting by Correspondents inside Zimbabwe See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...