President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 80, who came to power after a coup that deposed late ruler Robert Mugabe in 2017 is seeking re-election.
“Everyone who contests should go into the race to win”, he added, sporting his trademark multicoloured scarf.country’s economic woes that include high inflation, unemployment and widespread poverty.
Before electors cast their ballot, electoral officials marked their fingernail with an indelible black marker to fend off double voters. But the deputy chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission , Rodney Kiwa, dismissed concerns about irregularities in the voters roll as “the product of creative imagination”.He narrowly lost to Mnangagwa in 2018, in a poll he condemned as fraudulent. It was tainted by a deadly crackdown on post-election protests.
The former British colony, then named Rhodesia, broke away from London in 1965 under white-minority rule.But under Mugabe, the fledgling democracy spiralled into authoritarianism and economic decline.
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