Mugabe offers to negotiate after Zimbabwe vote

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe used his final campaign speech Thursday on the eve of Zimbabwe's election to make a fresh offer to negotiate with the opposition after the ballot.

"Should we emerge victorious, which I believe we will, sure we won't be arrogant, we will be magnanimous and say 'let's sit down and talk,' and talk we shall," Mugabe told a rally on the outskirts of Harare. Voting will take place on Friday (today).

He said it was up to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - the opposition party - to decide whether they would agree to the offer.