JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The leaders of Zimbabwe’s divided opposition formally announced Monday that the two groups had reunited, claiming control of Parliament for the first time in the nation’s history and demanding that President Robert Mugabe concede the recent election.
Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara also called for the United Nations to send a special envoy to Zimbabwe in an effort to stop what Tsvangirai called state-supported attacks that are “tantamount to crimes against humanity.”
Zimbabwe held elections March 29 and still has no official presidential results. Zimbabwe’s electoral commission had promised to bring the contending parties together on Monday to review collated results in the presidential contest. But there were again unexplained delays.
