Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been detained by police for several hours at a roadblock while campaigning in the country's run-off presidential vote, his Movement for Democratic Change said on Wednesday.

"We are currently held up. They are saying there's a commanding officer whom we should wait for. They are not saying why they are holding us up. It's not an arrest but illegal detention. It appears they want to disrupt our campaign programme," Tsvangirai's spokesman George Sibotshiwe said.

Tsvangirai has been detained since 1000 GMT (11 a.m. British time). Police searched all vehicles and inspected documents, the MDC said.

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