Zimbabwe President Mugabe re-elected for seventh term amid fraud claims

Amid claims of electoral fraud, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has won a seventh term in office, after winning 61 percent of the vote, against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's 34 percent.

According to the BBC, Tsvangirai earlier said the elections for parliament and president were fraudulent and promised to take legal action.

He even said that his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would no longer work with Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.

The two parties have been in a coalition since 2009, after the last election sparked widespread violence, the report said.

Former colonial power the UK said it had grave concerns about the conduct of the election, and urged a thorough investigation of all allegations of violations and the US state department also called for an investigation and said the results were not a credible expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people, the report added.

Mugabe has been president since 1987and became prime minister when Zimbabwe won independence from the UK in 1980.