President says Zimbabwe to hold elections in July
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/ HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman Robert Mugabe's long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. The polls will be the first major test of the new leader, who took power in November after a de facto military coup forced the 94-year-old Mugabe to resign. They will also be the first without Mugabe's name on the ballot since independence from Britain in 1980. "As a ...
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