{"id":9527,"date":"2013-08-05T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/supporters-of-zimbabwe-opposition-mdc-allege\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T02:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T02:50:05","slug":"supporters-of-zimbabwe-opposition-mdc-allege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/supporters-of-zimbabwe-opposition-mdc-allege\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters of Zimbabwe opposition MDC allege attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Members of Zimbabwe&#8217;s opposition MDC party say they have been attacked by followers of President Robert Mugabe.}}<\/p>\n<p>The allegations come a day after official results from Wednesday&#8217;s poll gave Mr Mugabe a seventh term in office and his Zanu-PF party three-quarters of the seats in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven people in Harare and around 20 from Mashonaland province say they were attacked by known Zanu-PF supporters after the results were announced,<\/p>\n<p>The MDC has called the poll fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>Its leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, has vowed to take legal action to contest the results.<\/p>\n<p>He has also said his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would no longer work with Mr Mugabe&#8217;s Zanu-PF party and would boycott government institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The two parties have been in a coalition since 2009, after the last election sparked widespread violence.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 people who claimed they were attacked in a township in the capital Harare sought refuge at the MDC party headquarters on Sunday, the BBC&#8217;s Brian Hungwe reports from Harare.<\/p>\n<p>Both they and those from Mashonaland province allege that they were attacked by Zanu-PF supporters who went door-to-door ordering MDC supporters and their families to pack their bags and leave.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3348 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_69112468_598d2056-6e0d-4293-ad8f-4eeca2e81f62.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Members of Zimbabwe&#8217;s opposition MDC party say they have been attacked by followers of President Robert Mugabe.}} The allegations come a day after official results from Wednesday&#8217;s poll gave Mr Mugabe a seventh term in office and his Zanu-PF party three-quarters of the seats in parliament. Eleven people in Harare and around 20 from Mashonaland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}