Tsvangirai defeated Mugabe, who has ruled since independence from Britain in 1980, in a first-round presidential vote in March, when the MDC also forced ZANU-PF into the minority in parliament for the first time.
He failed to win enough votes for an outright victory and then pulled out of the run-off in June, accusing the regime of coordinating a brutal campaign of violence that left scores of his supporters dead.
The political squabbling has dimmed hopes for halting Zimbabwe’s economic collapse, with the country buckling under the world’s highest rate of inflation.
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