Death deals blow to MDC party in face of resurgent Zanu-PF ahead of possible May pollZimbabwe’s main opposition leader,Morgan Tsvangirai, has died aged 65. He had been suffering from colon cancer for at least two years, and but his condition deteriorated rapidly in recent days despite treatment in neighbouring South Africa.
His death will be an huge blow to the opposition in Zimbabwe,coming only months before the first elections were due to be held in the former British colony since the end of Robert Mugabe’s near four-decade rule final year.
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Source: guardian.co.uk