The United States pushed for Zimbabwe to be included on the United Nations Security Council agenda before the June 2008 presidential elections run-off because of increasing violence that would not allow free and fair elections.
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Significant differences between Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and independent presidential candidate Simba Makoni showed that there was no way that a united opposition could be achieved to challenge Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front in the presidential elections run-off of 2008.
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A former legislator for Chimanimani Michael Mataure told United States embassy officials in February 2001 that President Robert Mugabe had become so unpopular that he would have to deploy 250 000 people to canvass for him to win the 2002 presidential elections but his party simply did not have the resources to mount such a campaign.
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Webster Shamu said there was going to be civil war in Zimbabwe if the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front did not win the June 2000 parliamentary elections where it was facing its biggest challenge yet from the nine-month-old Movement for Democratic Change.
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Webster Shamu, who was known as Charles Ndlovu at the time, was a womaniser and a heavy drinker though he was married according to the United States embassy in Harare.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s foreign policy and security advisor Stuart Doran told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that the MDC had lost hope that SADC as a collective, or even a majority of SADC countries, would take any public stance against the regime in Zimbabwe, the ongoing violence, or the likely possibility that the run-off election would be rigged in Mugabe’s favour.
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The Prime Minister of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramgoolam said statements by Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai that he would not be running in the presidential elections run-off were alarming because allowing President Robert Mugabe to run unopposed would be a disaster.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had to hold a low key funeral for the party treasurer for Mashonaland East Shepherd Jani after he was brutally murdered in the run-up to the presidential elections run-off of 2008.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said an MDC government was going to launch a fund for victims of Operation Murambatsvina and another for those of Gukurahundi in July 2008.
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