IN 2008 Zimbabweans voted in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
Zimbabwe 2008 Elections in Pictures
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Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe addresses a press conference in Harare , Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Tsvangirai said that according to the results they collected throughout the country he had won the presidency and was waiting for the confirmation from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
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Pedestrians pass beneath an election banner with a portrait of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe in Harare Tuesday April 15, 2008. Additional police and soldiers were deployed across Zimbabwe's capital Tuesday as the country's opposition urged Zimbabweans to join in a nationwide strike to press for the released of long-delayed presidential results.
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A Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporter displaced from her rural home in the north-east of the country by post election violence cries while speaking at a human rights forum in the capital Harare April 29, 2008.
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Supporters of Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) carry the coffin of slain party activist Tonderai Ndira at his funeral in the capital Harare May 25, 2008. The MDC claimed that scores of it's supporters have been killed and thousands displaced in post election violence.