Elections Hold Key to Zimbabwe's Future

NPR | By Madeleine Brand

Published March 30, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe made his last pitch to voters Wednesday, the eve of the country's parliamentary elections. NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Abe McLaughlin of the Christian Science Monitor in Zimbabwe about the impact that the elections might have for the nation's future.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

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