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Zimbabwe Riot Police Clear Journalists Waiting For Chamisa News Conference

MDC opposition leader Nelson Chamisa arrives at the Bronte Hotel in Harare for a press conference minutes after he was broken up by several dozen riot police armed with tear gas cannisters, on August 3, 2018, as Zimbabwe’s opposition rejected today what it said were the “fake” results of landmark elections.
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Zimbabwean riot police chased away journalists waiting for a news conference by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday (August 3), shouting “out, out,” a Reuters witness said.

Chamisa has questioned the outcome of Monday’s (July 30) presidential election, in which he lost out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the ruling Zanu-PF party.

The election, the first since the army removed 94-year-old Robert Mugabe from office in November, passed off relatively smoothly on the day, raising hopes of a break from a history of disputed and violent polls.

But an army crackdown on opposition supporters in which six people were killed and opposition claims that the vote was rigged revealed the deep rifts in Zimbabwean society that developed during Mugabe’s four decades in power, when the security forces became a byword for heavy-handedness.

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