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Voting begins amid rising tensions due to a currency crisis and high unemployment.

Zimbabweans head to the polls Wednesday for presidential and general elections that come amid a worsening economic crisis. It's tipped to be a tight race. While the opposition appears to have seduced the youth vote, the ruling party ZANU-PF still leads the polls.

Promises to get inflation and unemployment on track after decades of Mugabe rule have failed to materialise

Zimbabwe’s governing party and main opposition candidates are hoping to outdo each other in the August 23 elections.

The long read: After agitating against Robert Mugabe in Harare in the late 90s, Patson Muzuwa fled to the UK. He continued the fight from afar, and became a tireless torchbearer for those he had to leave behind

Zimbabwe goes to the polls this week for an election many hope could end the country's lengthy economic crisis, but those expectations are tempered by concerns that the contest is skewed in favour of a party that has been in power for more than four decades.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a former guerrilla fighter and bodyguard who responded to being fired as vice president by unseating long-ruling autocrat Robert Mugabe in a coup

Reports of growing repression cast doubt on credibility of polls in country struggling with corruption, inflation and poverty

Ahead of the August 23 election, multiple issues are at stake including Zimbabwe’s long-running economic woes.