Zimbabwe’s post-election future uncertain
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HARARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabweans wait—in food lines, for petrol, to get cash. And they wait to learn the results of elections in their country. Days after the March 29 elections, official results have still not been announced.
“We think the opposition may have won the elections,” said Bishop Danisa Ndlovu, Mennonite World Conference president-elect on April 2, “but it is possible that there will be no clear majority.”
“The BICC (Brethren in Christ Church) has been praying for peace to prevail. … We see the calmness which prevailed during the voting exercise as an answer to the prayers of the church in Zimbabwe and beyond,” he said.
Ndlovu said the church is praying that the former ruling party, if it loses the election, will “accept the outcome … and contribute to the good of the future of our nation as a positive and credible opposition.”
The four election observers sent by Mennonite World Conference at the invitation of the BICC were to monitor all stages of the election process and have free access to the polling station, said Pascal Kulungu from the Mennonite Brethren Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
However, the Minister of Justice denied accreditation for Kulungu and the other MWC observers, who came from South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. Some faith-based observers were accredited. Observers without accreditation could not enter polling stations, but they did visit polls in Harare and several rural areas.—MWC
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