Zimbabwe opposition claims victory, contesting president's re-election

Mnangagwa, 80, won a second term with 52.6 percent of the ballots against 44 percent for his main challenger, Chamisa, 45, according to official results announced late Saturday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission .

Zimbabweans voted Wednesday and Thursday for a president and new parliament, in polling marred by delays that sparked opposition accusations of rigging and voter suppression. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced concern on Sunday about "the arrest of observers, reports of voter intimidation, threats of violence, harassment and coercion."

That did not stop Mnangagwa from thanking "various election observation missions who have been witnessing our electoral processes without bias". But for political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya: "The CCC has good grounds to go to court and challenge the outcome.""The results were no good, there's something wrong somewhere," Godwell Gonye told AFP."We accept them for as they are, it's the decision of the majority and we respect it," he said.

A year later, he narrowly beat Chamisa a first time in a vote the opposition leader condemned as fraudulent, and which was followed by a deadly crackdown.

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