Zimbabwe’s re-elected president fends off election fraud claims

Zimbabwe’s re-elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa suggested on Sunday that those people questioning the results of last week’s election, which an opposition leader dismissed as a “gigantic fraud”, take their case to court.
The election commission said on Saturday that Mnangagwa, 80, had won the election with 52.6% of the vote while the opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa got 44%.
Mnangagwa took over when longtime strongman Robert Mugabe was toppled in a 2017 military coup. His first term was marked by runaway inflation, currency shortages and sky-high unemployment.
Mnangagwa welcomed the election result.