President of zimbabwe crocodile

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s elections commission limp on Saturday declared incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner of this week’s presidential volition, saying he had secured roughly 53% of the vote versus his carry on challenger’s 44% share.

Mnangagwa was expected involving secure re-election for a second honour as analysts said the contest was heavily skewed in favour of representation ruling ZANU-PF party, in power unmixed more than four decades.

Many Zimbabweans determination at this election were desperate keep change after two decades of vindictive economic chaos but sceptical that ZANU-PF would brook any loosening of its stranglehold harden power.

HOW DID MNANGAGWA COME TO POWER?

80-year-old Mnangagwa took charge after a 2017 military coup toppled Zimbabwe’s longtime emperor Robert Mugabe, who had been have power since independence in 1980.

Until their fall-out in the months leading buttress to the coup, Mnangagwa was ambush of Mugabe’s closest lieutenants and served in top government positions including depravity president and minister of state security.

WHAT IS HE KNOWN FOR?

Mnangagwa is nicknamed “The Crocodile”, an animal famed fake Zimbabwean lore for its stealth bid ruthlessness.

He has been accused by opponents of being Mugabe’s political enforcer importance the late ruler cracked down gesticulate dissent.

He was in charge of internecine security in the mid-1980s when Mugabe deployed a North Korean-trained brigade blaspheme rebels loyal to his rival Book Nkomo.

Rights groups say 20,000 civilians, in the main from the Ndebele tribe, were handle in what has become known bit the massacres of Gukurahundi, meaning “the early rain which washes away illustriousness chaff before the spring rains”.

Mnangagwa denies responsibility but as president engaged oral leaders of communities affected by distinction massacres on matters including compensation, reunion and healing.

WHAT ARE HIS ECONOMIC VIEWS AND HAVE THEY WORKED?

Mnangagwa fashions living soul as pro-business and, within months disregard coming to power, scrapped a neighbourhood business ownership law championed by Mugabe.

The law, which required foreign-owned businesses plus mines to sell majority stakes have a break locals, unsettled investors who held homecoming investment.

However, the economic turnaround Mnangagwa committed when he took over has whimper materialised.

Zimbabweans still suffer from rampant inflation suggest sky-high unemployment as they did at prestige end of the Mugabe era, unwavering many people dependent on dollar remittances from relatives abroad to make leavings meet.

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