Zimbabwe's election commission has declared incumbent leader Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the country's first presidential election post-Robert Mugabe.<br />For more on this and other stories from around the world, we turn to our Oh Soo-young at the News Center.<br />Soo-young, it looks like Zimbabwe's ruling party will hold onto power. But the opposition is claiming fraud, and really, it was a close race, wasn't it?<br /><br /> That's right. Officials say President Mnangagwa won with 50-point-eight percent of the vote,... while his main opponent Nelson Chamisa picked up just over 44 percent. <br /> The results were announced in a televised statement Thursday,... a day after six people died in violent clashes between civilians and security forces.<br />Opposition supporters were protesting what they saw as a rigged general election,... where the ruling Zanu-PF Party claimed a two-thirds majority of the seats in parliament.<br /> The main opposition party Movement for Democratic Change,... had already rejected the outcome of the presidential vote days before it was announced,... and claimed that Chamisa was the winner.<br />Party chairman Morgan Komichi has in fact vowed to challenge Mnangagwa's win through the courts.<br />The southern African nation held its first presidential and general elections since its long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe was ousted from office last year.<br />Many have hoped the watershed vote would lead to progress in democracy and economic growth for the country. <br />
