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Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa wins second term, opposition rejects result

President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa at a press conference at the State House in Harare on August 27, 2023 Jekesai Njikizana/AFP]

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won a second and final term in office in an outcome rejected by the opposition and questioned by observers.

Mnangagwa, who took over from longtime leader Robert Mugabe after a 2017 army coup, was widely expected to secure re-election despite the country’s continuing economic crisis, with analysts saying the contest was heavily skewed in favour of the ZANU-PF party, which has ruled the country since independence and the end of white minority rule in 1980.

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