Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, says four of its youth activists have been found dead near Harare ahead of next week's presidential run-off election.
The MDC says the four were attacked at a local councillor's home by young supporters of ZANU-PF, the party of President Robert Mugabe. Around 70 MDC supporters have been killed since the opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won the March first round but failed to secure an overall majority. A South African newspaper reports that South African President Thabo Mbeki has tried to persuade Mugabe to cancel next week's run-off due to increasing violence and has urged him instead to form a government of national unity with Tsvangirai. Mbeki met Mugabe in Mugabe in Rome for UN food summit ...
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AU tells Zimbabwe, release results ... Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, on Wednesday. Tsvangirai's party says it's applied to Zimbabwe's High Court to overturn a state-media ban on MDC campaign advertisements.
(Deutsche Welle)
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