Tsvangirai Returns Home

Tsvangirai arrives home
24th May 2008
all credits: ITN News

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has returned to Zimbabwe despite his party's fears he might be assassinated by government agents. Mr Tsvangirai arrived at Harare airport aboard a regular South African Airways flight after cancelling his homecoming a week ago after his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said it had learnt he was the target of a military intelligence assassination plot.

The government dismissed the plot as a propaganda stunt.

A small party of MDC officials and Western diplomats, including US ambassador James McGee, was at Harare airport to welcome Mr Tsvangirai. At a news conference soon after his return, Mr Tsvangirai said President Robert Mugabe wanted to decimate opposition structures before a presidential run-off election on June 27

Mr Tsvangirai has been travelling abroad since April 8 on a diplomatic drive to pressure Mr Mugabe to surrender power following a March 29 presidential poll, which he says he won outright. But Zimbabwe's electoral commission says he did not get enough votes for a straight victory and must face Mugabe in the run-off.


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