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Fraud risk looms over Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe election

Former Robert Mugabe ally Emmerson Mnangagwa hopes to keep the ZANU-PF party in power -- but a recent poll had Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change just three percent behind. [AFP]

Zimbabwe goes to the polls on Monday in its first election since authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations mounting of voter fraud and predictions of a disputed result.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former ally in the ruling ZANU-PF party, faces opposition leader Nelson Chamisa of the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) party in a landmark vote for the southern African nation.

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