HARARE: Crisis-weary Zimbabweans were voting on Wednesday in a fiercely contested election dominated by veteran President Robert Mugabe’s bid to extend his 33-year rule and suspicions of vote rigging.

The 89-year-old firebrand, Africa’s oldest leader, is running for office for the seventh and perhaps final time, after a series of violent crackdowns, economic crises and suspect elections.

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