Zimbabwe opposition politician seeking asylum following arrest
Tendai Biti, a leading member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, has since been released and is on Zambian soil seeking asylum.
Tendai Biti, a leading member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, has since been released and is on Zambian soil seeking asylum.
Nelson Chamisa declared a ‘day of mourning for democracy’ and claimed the vote was rigged.
Six people were killed when police and army fired live rounds to disperse a protest.
Zanu-PF has won a majority of seats in parliament, the electoral commission said, and the country awaits the results of the presidential vote.
The electoral commission said it will announce the results of the presidential race when all votes for the House of Assembly have come in.
Voter turnout is high in the first elections without long-standing leader former Robert Mugabe on the ballot.
Zimbabwe is voting in its first election without Robert Mugabe on the ballot paper.
The majority of Zimbabwe’s five million voters grew up under Robert Mugabe.
The MDC coalition’s leader Nelson Chamisa urged voters to embrace change in Monday’s historic vote.
Self-taught artist Akie Nakata paints incredibly realistic animals onto stones and pebbles.
Serina Tsubakihara lost her camera while scuba diving in Japan. It washed up in Taiwan two years later.
They also have a ferret, a turtle and three dogs.
The opposition will choose a new candidate to oppose Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former close ally of Robert Mugabe.
He had been fighting colon cancer for two years.
The former prime minister was 65.