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Fraud risk looms over Zimbabwe's post-Robert Mugabe election

Former Robert Mugabe ally Emmerson Mnangagwa hopes to keep the ZANU-PF party in power -- but a recent poll had Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change just three percent behind

Zimbabwe goes to the polls on Monday in its first election since authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations mounting of voter fraud and predictions of a disputed result.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former ally in the ruling ZANU-PF party, faces opposition leader Nelson Chamisa of the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) party in a landmark vote for the southern African nation.

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