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Tanzania says Zimbabwe election unfair

HARARE, June 19 - Zimbabwe’s run-off presidential election next week is very unlikely to be free and fair, a group of southern African ministers said on Thursday, in the strongest regional condemnation yet of pre-poll violence.

”There is every sign that these elections will never be free nor fair,” Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe told a news conference. He was speaking on behalf of a peace and security troika of nations from the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

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