<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has survived an apparent bomb attack at an election rally of the ruling party in Bulawayo. He said an object exploded yesterday a few inches away from him, but it was not his time.</span></div>''<div dir="ltr"><br />''</div>''<div dir="ltr">State broadcaster  ZBC reported that 42 people were injured, six of them seriously. The seventy-five year old President visited the injured in hospital. He condemned the violence as senseless and pleaded for unity.<br />''</div>''<div dir="ltr"><br />''</div>''<div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mr Mnangagwa was in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city and also an opposition stronghold, to campaign for his Zanu-PF party ahead of nationwide elections on the </span><span class="aQJ" data-term="goog_416628404" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #cccccc; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">30th of July</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. He took power in November 2017 after longtime leader Robert Mugabe stepped down following a military intervention.</span>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div></div>