HARARE,
Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabweans are voting in their first election without Robert
Mugabe on the ballot, a contest that could bring international legitimacy and
investment or signal more stagnation if the vote is seriously flawed.
About 5.5
million people are registered to vote on Monday in this southern African nation
anxious for change after decades of economic paralysis and the nearly
four-decade rule of the 94-year-old Mugabe. Long lines of voters are waiting
outside some polling stations. Thousands of election monitors are in the
country to observe a process that the opposition says is biased against them.
The two main contenders are 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former
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