<p>Shots were fired and police used water cannons</a> to disperse crowds on August 1 as anti-ZANU-PF protesters took to the streets of Harare to express their discontent at the party’s election triumph.</p><p>Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said</a> ZANU-PF won two thirds of the parliamentary seats, beating rival party MDC Alliance.</p><p>Early results</a> indicated ZANU-PF’s Emmerson Mnangagwa was in the lead to win the presidential election.</p><p>The military was deployed</a> as a response to the protests.</p><p>On July 31 Zimbabwe took to the polls for the first time since the removal of Robert Mugabe, also of the ZANU-PF party, as president in 2017. Mugabe had been president for 30 years after serving as prime minister for seven years.. Credit: eNCA via Storyful</p><br />
