President Emmerson Mnangagwa is leading in the partial presidential vote results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. Follow the live update here
Source: LIVE: Mnangagwa leads in partial presidential vote results | News24
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ZEC has just finished announcing results from nine provinces.
Results from Mashonaland province will be announced in an hour’s time, according to the ZEC chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba
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The ZEC commissioner has just walked into the Rainbow Towers where the presidential vote results are expected to be released – Carien du Plessis
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Zimbabwe’s president says international election observers have told him they are “disappointed with the events of yesterday” that left at least six people dead.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa tells the state broadcaster the observers met with him and expressed their concerns about Wednesday’s chaos in the capital when the military dispersed opposition supporters with gunfire. – AP
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In brief:
The ruling party and the main opposition group both declared on Thursday they won Zimbabwe’s presidential election ahead of an imminent announcement of the official result, deepening a political crisis that was worsened by deadly rioting in the capital.
The death toll from street clashes Wednesday rose to six, with 14 injured, police said, and 18 people were arrested at the offices of the main opposition party amid tensions over a vote that was supposed to restore trust in Zimbabwe after decades of rule by Robert Mugabe.
There were conflicting accounts of who was responsible for the bloodshed in the capital of Harare, which followed opposition protests of alleged vote-rigging.
Police tried to disperse angry crowds with tear gas and water cannons, and then soldiers fired live rounds – AP
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