Vote rigging
May 2 2008, Daniel

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, defeated President Robert Mugabe in the presidential elections, but failed to win enough votes to secure outright victory, the Zimbabwean Election Commission was reported to have announced last...

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