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  • June 2008
    • Tsvangirai: Save Yourselves, Vote Mugabe

      Tsvangirai: Save Yourselves, Vote Mugabe

      (Newser) - As Zimbabwe's sham run-off election for president began to get underway, even opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged supporters to vote for Robert Mugabe to save themselves from the violent intimidation orchestrated by the government, the Guardian reports. Mugabe's militia has conducted a terror campaign of murder, abduction, imprisonment and rape to cow opposition supporters. More »

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      murder   Zimbabwe   Robert Mugabe   Morgan Tsvangirai   Zanu-PF   abduction   election fraud   intimidation   Zimbabwe Election Support Network   imprisonment

    • Despite Mugabe, Democracy Is Gaining in Zimbabwe

      Despite Mugabe, Democracy Is Gaining in Zimbabwe

      (Newser) - Undemocratic though the situation might seem, the fact that the opposition has forced a presidential run-off in Zimbabwe is a sign of democracy's spread in sub-Saharan Africa, the Wall Street Journa l reports, where the number of "free" countries has reached 11 of 48, up from 3 in 1977. "Democratic change is coming to the forefront faster than institutional change," a Zimbabwean opposition leader says. More »

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      Zimbabwe   Robert Mugabe   Africa   democracy   Zimbabwe Election Support Network

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