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Zimbabwe: We Lost Parliamentary Poll, But Not Presidential - Chamisa
The Herald, 3 August 2018
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally admitted that his party lost the 2018 parliamentary elections to the ruling Zanu-PF. He made the admission while… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Police Still Outside Harvest House As Harare Returns to Edgy Normal
New Zimbabwe, 3 August 2018
ANTI-RIOT police remained at the head offices of the opposition MDC-T party in central Harare as the capital returned to a tentative normal after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Increase in Journalists Assaulted During Harare Riots
Kubatana.net, 3 August 2018
MISA Zimbabwe has received two more reports of journalists injured while covering events that took place in Harare on Wednesday afternoon. Read more »
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Africa: Endorsing Flawed Polls - Africa's Shameful Charade
Zimbabwe Independent, 3 August 2018
It was the swashbuckling Kenyan lawyer, Professor Patrick Lumumba, who made a poignant observation with regards the shambolic state of electoral management on the African… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: MDC Alliance Rejects 'Fraudulent' Presidential Results
New Zimbabwe, 3 August 2018
THE opposition MDC Alliance has rejected the presidential election results which gave incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling Zanu PF party a narrow victory over his main… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: False New Dawn - What I Got Right, and Wrong
The Conversation Africa, 2 August 2018
The afternoon after Zimbabwe's historic Monday July 30 elections, I was trying to assuage the fears of Jason Burke, the correspondent for the London newspaper, the Guardian, that… Read more »
Chamisa Questions Mnangagwa's Presidential Poll Victory
President Emmerson Mnangagwa avoided a run-off after he received 50.8% of the vote while main opposition challenger Nelson Chamisa received 44.3%. Chamisa said the MDC Alliance "accepted the parliamentary election even with all its imperfections" but accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of trying to manipulate the results for the presidential elections.
InFocus
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The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared Emmerson Mnangagwa president shortly after midnight on Friday. The ruling Zanu-PF party won 144 of the 210 seats in parliament. But the ... Read more »
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A day after protests on the streets of Harare turned deadly, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is "in communication" with opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who had ... Read more »
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Hundreds of opposition protesters took to Harare's streets, calling on authorities to release official presidential election results. Police fired water cannon and tear gas at the ... Read more »
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MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has thanked Zimbabweans for their support in an announcement that says "we have won the popular vote" - made soon after the ... Read more »
Voter turnout was high, particularly in the morning as most polling stations in the capital were swarmed by voters.
