ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe's main opposition party urges citizens to rise and save the country from tyranny

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said today (January, 17) that his Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC) would mobilise supporters to block President Robert Mugabe's plan to extend his rule by two years to 2010. Addressing the media and party supporters in Harare, at a conference to discuss his party's program for the year, Tsvangirai said that pushing the country's presidential elections to 2010 was a ploy by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) to make Robert Mugabe a life president. A move opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai his MDC party will resist by all means. "The national council acknowledge that the project and obsession of power retention legally and extra- legally needs to be resisted. In this regard, the national council resolved that we would engage in a campaign that will ensure that ZANU PF project collapses," he said. Other party sources said the MDC would lead a series of street protests and industrial strikes in the coming months. At over a thousand per cent, Zimbabwe has the highest rate of inflation in the world. Unemployment is at an all time high and food and fuel shortages are frequent in the country.

ITN Source | January 18, 2007

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