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Zimbabwe still awaits the results from its presidential polls which took place on Saturday March 29th.
Our programmes are following events in and around that country and here you'll find selection reports and interviews broadcast on the developments there.
Latest:
United Nations
Wednesday: The United Nations Security Council will be discussing co-operation between itself and the African Union - but Zimbabwe threatens to overshadow the meeting. The UK, as well as the US and France has said that it wants the issue of the postponed election results and the ensuing conditions in the country to be discussed - but not everyone agrees. Will Zimbabwe actually be on the agenda? Vikkou Bessan at the UN in New York spoke to Komla Dumor live on Network Africa. (16/04/08)
Opposition calls for a general strike to press for presidential results to be published have gone largely unheeded this Tuesday. So what options do the MDC have left to them? Komla Dumor asked Chris Maroleng, and analyst with the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. (15/04/08)
The High Court rejected the opposition Movement for Democratic Change petition trying to compel the country's electoral body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC, to release the results of the presidential election held last month. The party's Secretary for Information and Publicity, Nelson Chamisa gave Uduak Amimo his reaction to the ruling. (14/04/08)
Zimbabwe's High Court is due to rule on whether the electoral commission should release results from the presidential poll immediately.
The opposition MDC has asked for the ruling and the case is being considered because the electoral commission says it wants to recount the votes in 23 constituencies. Nick Ericsson asks Zimbabwean lawyer and analyst, Gugulethu Moyo, how free the courts really are to act? (14/04/08)
SADC and Zambia summit
Has MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai sought temporary asylum in Botswana? (10/04/08)
Regional silence
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has continued to call for patience in awaiting the outcome of the polls. He and other leaders in the SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) region have been criticised for failing to put more pressure on President Mugabe to release the results.
ANC president, Jacob Zuma, calls for the urgent release of the election results
South African analyst Aubrey Matshiqi doesn't believe that the MDC will get support from the region's leaders. (08/04/08)
But MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's visit to the president of the ANC Jacob Zuma in South Africa won backing, Mpho Lakaje reports. (09/04/08)
Arrests
Network 0730: Five officials of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission have been arrested and accused of under-counting votes cast for the incumbent Robert Mugabe. (08/04/08)
Run-off
A run-off for the presidency between the President Mugabe and the leader of the opposition MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai now seems likely.
Bola Mosuro asked Zimbabwean Lawyer and member of the International Bar Associatio, Gugulethu Moyo, how human rights activists are viewing the coming days. (05/04/08)
Focus 1500: The country's authorities appear to preparing Zimbabweans for a run-off in the presidential poll (03/04/08)
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Parliamentary results update on BBC Africa Today
The election run-up on BBC Africa Today
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