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Zimbabwe votes as world watches, condemns

HARARE-Zimbabweans vote in a one-sided presidential run-off on Friday after President Robert Mugabe defied mounting world condemnation and calls to postpone an election which the opposition says is a farce.Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who beat Mugabe in the first round of voting in March, withdrew from the run-off last Sunday over violence and intimidation of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters by the ruling ZANU-PF party.The poll has already been widely condemned and a security committee of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for the vote to be postponed, saying Mugabe's re-election as the only candidate could lack legitimacy.But Mugabe, 84, and planning to extend his 28-year-old uninterrupted rule, remained defiant and even ridiculed African leaders who have made calls to delay that election."Even today they are saying do away with the election, what stupidity is that," Mugabe said at his last campaign rally on Thursday, where he urged people to vote in large numbers.Mugabe has barred observers from Western countries critical of his government and all but refused entry to hundreds of foreign journalists who were keen to cover the election.A grouping of local observers has said its members were harassed and intimidated by government supporters and would not observe Friday's vote.But Zimbabwe's electoral authorities have forged ahead with preparations for the poll, deploying thousands of polling officers across the country and distributing ballot boxes and papers to more than 8,000 polling stations.
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