Despite international pressure, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is going to run in the country’s polls scheduled for June this year. The ZANU-PF ruled the country since independence in 1980 with the 86-year-old Mugabe being one of the longest-serving rulers in the world.

Nearly one-third of Zimbabwe’s registered voters are dead, and others appear to be babies or up to 120 years old, researchers said, calling for the list to be overhauled so that the upcoming election cannot be rigged. The anomalies opened the way for “double voting and other rigging intentions.” In its research, the group found some 2,344 voters between the ages of 101 and 110 still on Zimbabwe’s voting rolls, a dubious figure in a country where the average life expectancy is a mere 44 years.

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