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Exterior of hotel where Zimbabwe opposition delegation are staying 2. Set up of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) vice president Thokozani Khupe3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thokozani Khupe, Vice President, Movement...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSharm el-Sheikh, Egypt \u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of hotel where Zimbabwe opposition delegation are staying \u003cbr/\u003e2. Set up of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) vice president Thokozani Khupe\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thokozani Khupe, Vice President, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) \u003cbr/\u003e\"We as the MDC are calling upon the African Union to recognise the election which was held on the 29th of March and condemn the election which was held on the 27th of June. I am saying this because the election which was held on 29th of March is an election which was acceptable by observers, who came to observe elections in Zimbabwe and by the majority of the people in the continent. The one which was held on June 27th, it was a one man's race and it has been condemned by the Pan-African Parliament and I am sure that SADC (Southern African Development Community) is also going to condemn it. It has been condemned by almost everyone on the continent and in the whole world.\" \u003cbr/\u003eJohannesburg, South Africa\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway media and delegates \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dianne Kohler Barnard, Democratic Alliance MP and Southern African Development Community (SADC) observer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is no chance at all that one could have imagined that this could be described as a fair election, as a free election. It was neither. They (MDC) were fighting not another party in a political election, they were fighting, they were fighting the entire state machinery. Most of the MDC leadership is in custody or on the run. There are thousands of people living up in the mountains, in the bush, they have been burnt out of their homes, beaten and terrorised.\" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway copy of today's Zimbabwean newspaper The Standard with the headline (English) \"It's a sham!\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dianne Kohler Barnard, Democratic Alliance MP and Southern African Development Community (SADC) observer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As I sit here, Robert Mugabe is being sworn in as the President of Zimbabwe after this bizarre situation in Zimbabwe, that no one could call it an election. It really was nothing other than a war against defenceless Zimbabweans. It's a country at war with itself, which can quite possibly be referred to as a civil war.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway slide photo taken by the SADC observers in Zimbabwe \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is an enormous amount of evidence, including what Dianne and Marni have produced, that presents an overwhelming case for Robert Mugabe to be tried at the International Criminal Court at the Hague for crimes against humanity.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway journalist listening \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance:\u003cbr/\u003e\"President Mbeki (from South Africa) has resisted all calls to declare the Mugabe government illegitimate, despite the sham election. And the appalling news is that President Mbeki might well be lobbying the African Union to accept Mugabe, who is sworn in right now, as the legitimate president of Zimbabwe when Mugabe has the nerve to show up at the African Union in Egypt this week.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSharm el-Sheikh, Egypt \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of African Union meeting\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of African Union leaders in meeting\u003cbr/\u003eRobert Mugabe was sworn in for a sixth term as president of Zimbabwe on Sunday, just hours after officials announced that he had overwhelmingly won an election many countries have condemned as a sham.\u003cbr/\u003eThe vice president of Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), called the results \"ridiculous\". \u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking from the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Thokozani Khupe said she hoped people would recognise instead the results of the first round of voting which took place on March 29th.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am saying this because the election which was held 29th of March is an election which was acceptable by observers, who came to observe elections in Zimbabwe and by the majority of the people in the continent,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eKhupe was in Sharm el-Sheikh to put pressure on African Union leaders meeting there on Monday to not recognise the new government.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a news conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday, official election observers from South Africa called Friday's presidential run-off in Zimbabwe \"bizarre\" and \"neither fair ďż˝ nor free.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) observers claimed that what was happening in Zimbabwe was tantamount to civil war.\u003cbr/\u003eMugabe won an overwhelming victory in Zimbabwe's widely criticised, violence-wracked runoff election, according to official results.\u003cbr/\u003eObservers speaking at the news conference said what they had witnessed could not be described as an election.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It really was nothing other than a war against defenceless Zimbabweans. It's a country at war with itself, which can quite possibly be referred to as a civil war,\" said Dianne Kohler Barnard, a Democratic Alliance MP and SADC observer.\u003cbr/\u003eThe election followed a campaign during which opposition supporters were the targets of brutal state-sponsored violence that left more than 80 dead and forced some 200,000 to flee their homes, according to human rights groups.\u003cbr/\u003eLeader of the opposition party MDC Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn from the race because of the violence.\u003cbr/\u003eDemocratic Alliance leader Helen Zille, speaking at the same news conference, went on to say that the international community should try Robert Mugabe in an internationally-recognised court of law.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is an enormous amount of evidence that presents an overwhelming case for Robert Mugabe to be tried at the International Criminal Court at the Hague for crimes against humanity,\" said Zille.\u003cbr/\u003eObservers called for leaders from the African Union, including South Africa's leader Thabo Mbeki, not to recognise Zimbabwe's new government.\u003cbr/\u003eTotal results, according to the electoral commission, were more than 2 million votes for Mugabe, and 233,000 for Tsvangirai. 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