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Morning Brief: Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Disputes Election Results

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08/03/2018

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Morning Brief: Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Disputes Election Results

Top News: Zimbabwe’s electoral commission declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner in Zimbabwe’s presidential election, the first vote since longtime president Robert Mugabe was ousted in a coup in November.

In a close election, Mnangagwa narrowly avoided a run-off by taking 50.8 percent of the vote, according to results that were not announced until more than three days after polls closed.

The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition party, Nelson Chamisa, has dismissed the numbers as “unverified fake results,” and called on Zimbabweans to unite behind his presidency. Chamisa’s MDC Alliance has said the party will challenge the election results in court.

The wait for the results of Monday’s vote was marred by violence. Six people were killed when troops and riot police clashed with MDC supporters in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday.

Yemen: The World Health Organization warned Friday that Yemen may be on the brink of another cholera outbreak, and called for a ceasefire to allow for the civilian population to be vaccinated against the disease.

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AFRICA

•  A new outbreak of Ebola has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just days after the latest outbreak was declared over.

•  Mali’s presidential election is set to go to a runoff vote after neither candidate secured enough votes for an outright win.

•  Prosecutors in Ethiopia will file charges against five people suspected of involvement in a grenade attack on a rally attended by the Prime Minister in June.

AMERICAS

•  U.S. President Donald Trump described the media as “fake, fake disgusting news” at a rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday night.

•  The Organization of American States estimates that 317 people have been killed in Nicaragua since anti-government protests broke out in April.

•  U.S. national security chiefs have warned that Russia is behind “pervasive” attempts to interfere in upcoming U.S. elections.

ASIA

•  After meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China’s top diplomat said the country is willing to resolve differences with the United States “on an equal footing.”

•  Afghan police say 20 people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated near a Shiite mosque in the eastern city of Gardez.

•  A Japanese medical university has been accused of manipulating women’s entrance exam scores to keep the female student population low.

EUROPE

•  British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in France today as she seeks to win backing for her brexit plans.

•  Amnesty International said Russian authorities have denied them access to imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.

•  Bank of England governor Mark Carney told the BBC that there is an “uncomfortably high” and “highly undesirable” risk of a no-deal brexit.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Dozens have been killed in an airstrike near a hospital in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.

•  Iran is reported to have begun a major military exercise in the Persian Gulf.

•  Russia’s Defense Ministry said that U.N. peacekeepers have returned to patrol the frontier between Syria and Israel-occupied Golan Heights for the first time in four years.

- By Amy Mackinnon

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