{"id":36495,"date":"2018-08-03T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T07:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=36495"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T07:13:56","slug":"zimbabwe-election-emmerson-mnangagwa-declared-winner-in-disputed-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/zimbabwe-election-emmerson-mnangagwa-declared-winner-in-disputed-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe election: Emmerson Mnangagwa declared winner in disputed poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe&#8217;s presidential election, according to the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>With all 10 provinces declared, Mr Mnangagwa won 50.8% of votes, compared to 44.3% for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p>Police removed opposition officials from the electoral commission stage when they rejected the results.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of Mr Chamisa&#8217;s MDC Alliance said the count could not be verified.<\/p>\n<p>By narrowly winning more than 50% of the vote, Mr Mnangagwa avoids a run-off election against Mr Chamisa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-36498 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Untitled-1-copy-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Untitled-1-copy-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Untitled-1-copy.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/>The president said on Twitter he was &#8220;humbled&#8221;, and called the result &#8220;a new beginning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mnangagwa, from the governing Zanu-PF party, took over as president last November from long-serving leader Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story By BBC NEWS&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe&#8217;s presidential election, according to the electoral commission. With all 10 provinces declared, Mr Mnangagwa won 50.8% of votes, compared to 44.3% for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. Police removed opposition officials from the electoral commission stage when they rejected the results. The chairman of Mr Chamisa&#8217;s MDC Alliance said the count could not be verified. By narrowly winning more than 50% of the vote, Mr Mnangagwa avoids a run-off election against Mr Chamisa. The president said on Twitter he was &#8220;humbled&#8221;, and called the result &#8220;a new beginning&#8221;. Mr Mnangagwa, from the governing Zanu-PF party, took over as president last November from long-serving leader Robert Mugabe. Story By BBC NEWS&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":36499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}