Morgan tsvangirai and robert mugabe biography

Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 2009 to 2013

Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (; Shona pronunciation:[ts͎a.ᵑɡi.ra.i];^{[need tone]} 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013.^[1] He was president of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), and a key figure in the opposition to former president Robert Mugabe.

Tsvangirai was the MDC candidate in the controversial 2002 Zimbawean presidential election, losing to Mugabe. He later contested the first round of the 2008 Zimbawean presidential election as the MDC-T candidate, taking 47.8% of the vote according to official results, placing him ahead of Mugabe, who received 43.2%.

Tsvangirai claimed to have won a majority and said that the results could have been altered in the month between the election and the reporting of official results.^[2] Tsvangirai init