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Britain's prime minister Wednesday called for an arms embargo on Zimbabwe and urged condemnation of the country's recent elections as initial results of an opposition-decried recount showed in favor of President Robert Mugabe's party.

Gordon Brown's call came as a Chinese ship carrying weapons to Zimbabwe headed to Angola after its cargo was blocked from transit across South Africa and pressure mounted on other African nations not to allow delivery.

"We will promote proposals for an embargo on all arms to Zimbabwe and at the same time, we ask all the African Union observers and international observers to make their views known about the unfairness of this election," Brown told the House of Commons. The U.S. has asked South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola to not allow the ship carrying the arms to dock in their ports. Read full article »

CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report

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