Zimbabwe's opposition party, MDC, are claiming victory over Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in last week's election.

While ZANU-PF are unlikely to slink off quietly, this would appear to be the final nail in the coffin of their regime.

Follow up to this post picked by pocksucket 5 months ago

Zimbabwe's main opposition party (The Movement For Democratic Change or MDC) are claiming they have all but wiped out Ronert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party in yesterday's election.

Mugabe's spokesman, George Charamba, made barely disguised threats in response. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago

Its also been reported that people who support the opposition have to turn in IDs that would allow them to vote in order to get food or any kind of Aid... here is my questions... why dont they just rise up and kill this guy with sticks? picked by shep182 3 months ago

Score one for the tyrants.... picked by shep182 2 months ago

Six years after he precipitated the collapse of the economy by seizing 90 per cent of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe's Government now plans to take over the gold mines to support his financially crippled regime. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

A mob torched a church sheltering 100's of Kenyans fleeing election violence, killing as many as 50 continuing the bloodshed after the disputed vote that gave the president a second term. The opposition leader accused the government of "genocide".

I'm not usually so moved by a foreign countries political skirmishes, but Kenya is definitely grabbing my attention of late. picked by bevissimo 8 months ago

A Norwegian political party has chosen its candidate for a local election in Sarpsborg -- a man who has been dead for a year and a half. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

• Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy wins France's presidential election.
• Sarkozy won around 53 percent of the vote, according to early results.
video here. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Andrei Lugovoi, the former Russian agent wanted by Britain over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, is running for election as a candidate for the ultra-nationalist party led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky. picked by mitzuzake 11 months ago

The nation in the past year moved toward what he [Robert Mugabe] called "sustained economic recovery notwithstanding the suffering endured by many of our people". picked by rambler 9 months ago

Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won’t Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?

Here is why: She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama’s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don’t see it. picked by 1thirteen3 4 months ago