Mugabe loses control of parliament
In an upset that could see an end to the policies that have all but destroyed the country's economy, ZANU-PF, the party that has held power since Zimbabwe won its independence from Britain in 1980, has lost control of parliament - according to official election results - and its leader, Robert Mugabe, is facing defeat at the presidential polls the opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claimed on Wednesday.
Late on Wednesday night, with only seven seats left to be announced in constituencies viewed as MDC strongholds, opposition parties had won 106 seats, more than half of the 210 seats available in parliament.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC had 96 seats while Mugbae's ZANU-PF had secured 94. A breakaway faction of the MDC garnered nine seats while ZANU-PF's former minister of information, Jonathan Moyo, who ran as an independent, won his seat.
