The 53-nation African Union has urged Zimbabwe to release immediately results of its disputed presidential and parliamentary elections held three weeks ago.
This follows mounting international pressure on African leaders to intervene. Zimbabwe's electoral commission says a recount for both elections in 23 of 210 constituencies will take longer than the three days expected. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which says it beat the ruling ZANU-PF party outright in the parliamentary poll, has accused veteran President Robert Mugabe is trying to rig the outcome. The MDC says that a post-election crackdown has resulted in the deaths of ten people with 500 people injured. It says 400 MDC activists have been detained. Its leader Morgan Tsvangirai Mugabe denounces Britain in speech ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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