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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has won a seventh term in office. Zimbabwe’s coalition government is officially over.
Mugabe, won 61% of the vote, against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's 34%.Mr Tsvangirai earlier described the Zimbabwean elections as fraudulent and promised to take legal action.
In a news conference before the presidential result was announced, Tsvangirai said Zimbabwe was "in mourning".
"The fraudulent and stolen election has launched Zimbabwe into a constitutional, political and economic crisis," he said.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), complained about problems with voter registration which had left up to one million people unable to cast their ballots, most of them in MDC strongholds.
On Saturday, one of the nine members of the election commission resigned over the way the election was conducted.
Commissioner Mkhululi Nyathi said in his resignation letter: "While throughout the whole process I retained some measure of hope that the integrity of the whole process could be salvaged along the way, this was not to be."
The African Union and SADC have broadly endorsed the election, and South Africa has even challenged critics to produce evidence of ballot fraud.
