Zimbabwe's presidential runoff cannot take place in the time allotted by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will announce on Saturday whether he will take part in a presidential runoff, a spokesman for his party said Friday.
Two journalists and the lawyer for a third have been arrested in Zimbabwe in recent days, their spokesmen said Thursday, amid signs that the Zimbabwean government is intensifying a post-election crackdown.
Zimbabwe's opposition said post-election violence was increasing Wednesday, a day after the army denied unleashing attacks on critics in the southern African country.
Zimbabwe state media have reported that the ruling party has opened its runoff campaign, urging President Robert Mugabe's supporters to get out to vote and denouncing violence.
The opposition candidate who bested Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in the March presidential balloting is in no hurry to announce whether he will participate in a runoff election, his spokesman said Sunday.
The vice president of Zimbabwe's opposition party said top party officials on Saturday reaffirmed their decision not to participate in a runoff for president.
The election results are official: Mugabe lost, but gets a second chance in a runoff. With time to plan its counterattack, the regime looks likely to prevail
Political opponents of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe denounced Friday's presidential election results as "illegal" and said they stand by their stance that their leader won the race and that no runoff is necessary.
Zimbabwe's presidential runoff cannot take place in the time allotted by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will announce on Saturday whether he will take part in a presidential runoff, a spokesman for his party said Friday.
Two journalists and the lawyer for a third have been arrested in Zimbabwe in recent days, their spokesmen said Thursday, amid signs that the Zimbabwean government is intensifying a post-election crackdown.
Zimbabwe's opposition said post-election violence was increasing Wednesday, a day after the army denied unleashing attacks on critics in the southern African country.
Zimbabwe state media have reported that the ruling party has opened its runoff campaign, urging President Robert Mugabe's supporters to get out to vote and denouncing violence.
The opposition candidate who bested Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in the March presidential balloting is in no hurry to announce whether he will participate in a runoff election, his spokesman said Sunday.
The vice president of Zimbabwe's opposition party said top party officials on Saturday reaffirmed their decision not to participate in a runoff for president.
The election results are official: Mugabe lost, but gets a second chance in a runoff. With time to plan its counterattack, the regime looks likely to prevail
Political opponents of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe denounced Friday's presidential election results as "illegal" and said they stand by their stance that their leader won the race and that no runoff is necessary.
Electoral officials say Zimbabwe's opposition leader won 47.9
percent of votes in presidential elections -- not enough to avoid a
run-off against longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe's ruling and main opposition parties began meeting with the country's electoral commission Thursday to verify the results of the March 29 presidential election.
Zimbabwe authorities Tuesday released nearly all of the opposition supporters who were detained last week, a Movement for Democratic Change lawyer said.
Four weeks after a contested election and amid a campaign of violent intimidation, results of the presidential vote are about to be announced. And the opposition has new reason to hope
Zimbabwe's opposition leaders declared Monday that the country's opposition has won control of parliament for the first time in history -- and that President Robert Mugabe must concede defeat.
A recount of Zimbabwe's disputed legislative seats has confirmed the opposition party's control of parliament and should be completed Monday, allowing the release of results from last month's presidential election, state media reported.
Angola's government has denied permission for a Chinese ship to unload weapons destined for Zimbabwe at its port, the latest country to do so, the nation's state-run ANGOP news agency reported.
A recount of ballots in the Zimbabwe presidential election may be completed by Monday, leading to an announcement of the results nearly a month after voting took place, the chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said Saturday.
Hundreds of armed police raided the offices of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and independent election observers on Friday amid the continuing turmoil caused by the delay in releasing results.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader won the disputed March 29 presidential election, and President Robert Mugabe should step down, the top U.S. envoy to Africa said Thursday.
A senior U.S. State Department official said Thursday she believes President Robert Mugabe lost the March 29 presidential election to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
A Chinese ship that was blocked from unloading its cargo in South Africa may return to China because of difficulties at African ports, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.
A Zimbabwe election official said Tuesday that results from the presidential and parliamentary elections should be announced this weekend, four weeks after votes were cast.
A judge Friday rejected a request by the Zimbabwe opposition to stop plans for a recount of votes from the March 29 presidential election, opposition lawyer Andrew Makoni told CNN.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has called for the United Nations to set up a criminal court to prosecute those guilty of violence in the aftermath of the stalled election in his troubled country.
South Africa, which has been reluctant to criticize Zimbabwe publicly, made a strong call Thursday for the release of the African nation's presidential vote tallies
Zimbabwe's government accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason Thursday, saying he and enemy Britain are plotting an "illegal regime change" to oust the southern African nation's longtime ruler.
Police arrested 36 people during a nationwide strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of presidential election results, authorities said Wednesday.
A senior opposition leader accused Zimbabwe's ruling party Tuesday of unleashing an "orgy of violence" across the country in the wake of a disputed presidential election.
While Mugabe's regime continues to withhold the elections result, even his most ardent rivals may be too afraid of violence to turn out for a planned general strike
Zimbabwe's High Court ruled Monday that it would not force the troubled African country's electoral commission to release the results of the March 29 presidential vote, two journalists at the court told CNN.
A summit of Southern African leaders, meeting to discuss Zimbabwe's electoral stalemate, concluded Sunday with a weak declaration that appealed for a quick release of the results and the conclusion that the country is not in crisis.
Zimbabwe's opposition party called for a general strike to start Tuesday, the day after the country's High Court is due to decide whether to force publication of presidential election results, a party spokesman said Saturday.
Prospects of resolving Zimbabwe's two-week-old election crisis appeared dim after a government spokesman said President Robert Mugabe would not attend a key weekend meeting with other regional leaders.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, are due at this weekend's emergency summit of southern African leaders, summoned by the president of neighboring Zambia, to discuss the electoral and political crisis, spokesmen for the two men said.
Zimbabwe militants, mostly war veterans, have forcibly seized at least 60 white-owned farms, apparently on government orders, a farmers' representative said Tuesday.
Zimbabwe's High Court ruled Monday it can force the country's electoral commission to release the results of the March 29 presidential election, but it is still unclear if the court will do so.
President Robert Mugabe's government raided the offices of the main opposition and rounded up foreign journalists Thursday, indicating he may use violence to stay in power
If Morgan Tsvangirai does become the next president of Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe, then there can be few current world leaders who have suffered as much in their struggle to assume office.
President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party has lost control of the lower house of parliament, according to results released Wednesday by Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission.
Despite increasing calls from the international community to release election results, Zimbabwe has yet to provide any data on the presidential race three days after voters went to the polls.
Anxiety was growing in Zimbabwe early Tuesday, three days after people in the African nation went to the polls to elect a new president and parliament.
Election observers called on Zimbabwe's government to release the results of weekend elections as soon as possible to avoid political unrest, but government officials said the results won't be out until Monday.
Police in Zimbabwe will not hesitate to use their guns to quell violence during and after next month's elections, the official media reported Wednesday.
Southern African leaders Thursday emerged from a conference in Tanzania's capital allied with embattled Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and calling for the lifting of all sanctions against his government.
At a hospital bed in South Africa, a 64-year-old grandmother is recovering from multiple fractures to her legs and left arm -- injuries from Zimbabwe police who beat her repeatedly.
A leading Zimbabwean cleric said on Thursday he was ready to face bullets in the street amid international condemnation of Robert Mugabe's regime and fears of a renewed wave of repression.
Four representatives of Zimbabwe's main opposition party were arrested this weekend as they tried to leave the country for neighboring South Africa, including one who said he was badly beaten, a spokesman for Movement for Democratic Change told CNN.
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai remained in the hospital Wednesday after he and two other opposition leaders were beaten and detained.
There was a time when Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe, was the hero of the nation and the darling of the West -- the man who over-rode the former Rhodesia's white colonial legacy and created a stable black majority democracy.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has agreed to hold formal talks with his political opponents, South African President Thabo Mbeki announced Thursday.
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