Nigeria: Mugabe Dares the World

27 June 2008
analysis

Lagos — Will today's presidential run-off in Zimbabwe hold? That is the million dollar question on the lips of many observers as Zimbabweans prepare for this controversial exercise.

The two principal characters - President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - have heated up the polity so much that the international community seems to be fixated on the Southern African country with every other thing becoming secondary.

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