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 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A former ruling party loyalist who clashed with President Robert Mugabe over economic policy announced Tuesday he would run against Mugabe as an independent in next month's presidential election, hoping to galvanize others disillusioned with the party.
Victory in the March 29 vote has been seen as a foregone conclusion for Mugabe, 83, and the ruling ZANU-PF party against a weak and fractured opposition. So the challenge by former finance minister Simba Makoni, 57, gave the election a new dimension.
Officials of the smaller of two factions in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said Arthur Mutambara, its leader, was giving his group's support to Makoni.
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