Armed supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe have occupied the area in Harare where opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was to hold an election rally.
The rally was going ahead after a High Court judge on Saturday ordered police not to block it, overruling a decision by the police to ban the event. The rally was to be the first to be addressed by Tsvangirai before next Friday's presidential run-off election against Mugabe. In the first round of the vote in March, Tsvangirai beat Mugabe but failed to garner the absolute majority. The run-up to the second round has been marred by violence. The MDC says violence has left some 70 supporters dead, 200 unaccounted for Turkey's AKP threatens to clip power of courts ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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