Poll Violence Fears Grow in Zimbabwe
June 19, 2008
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki is in Zimbabwe for talks with Robert Mugabe, amid growing concern over violence ahead of next week’s poll.
Mr Mbeki has mediated between Mr Mugabe and the opposition MDC, which said it expected little from the talks.
President Mugabe will face MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a second round presidential election on June 27.
The meeting comes as UN head Ban Ki-moon expressed "profound alarm" over pre-poll violence in Zimbabwe.
If current conditions – including intimidation and arrests of opposition leaders – continued, the election outcome would be in question, the UN secretary general said.
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