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 ZVIMBA, Zimbabwe (AP) - The doors of polling stations in President Robert Mugabe's birthplace are bare. No elections results have been posted here, hours after most votes around the country were counted and displayed.
As the nation tensely awaited an official announcement of Saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections — the biggest test for Mugabe in his 28 years of rule — no one seemed more in the dark than this community of peasant farmers.
Independent monitors said that could be because Mugabe's ruling party has lost at least one parliamentary seat in the district. If so, it would be a crushing blow to the leader who was born on a Roman Catholic mission in Zvimba, about 60 miles southwest of Harare.
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