August 17, 2009

Toendepi Shonhe, director general of the Movement for Democratic Change, the party now sharing power with President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, was acquitted Monday of perjury charges, an M.D.C. statement said. The statement said the charges were trumped up by elements of the old guard bent on sabotaging the new coalition government. Several members of Zimbabwe’s Parliament and officials from the M.D.C. are facing charges the party says are false and aimed at depriving Mr. Mugabe’s rivals of a majority.

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