The World - News from April 3, 1988
The party of former opposition leader Joshua Nkomo voted to merge with the ruling party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in a step to unite Zimbabwe’s most powerful political movements. Nkomo, president of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, opened the party’s one-day congress with a plea to more than 5,000 delegates to endorse a unity accord that he signed with Mugabe on Dec. 23. The congress unanimously backed two resolutions to dismantle Nkomo’s party. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union is to vote on the unity accord April 9.
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