Zimbabwe Awaits Friday Court Ruling on Election Challenge
This was supposed to be the poll that set Zimbabwe free: free from the longtime, increasingly oppressive rule of Robert Mugabe. Free from the suspicions and violence that have come to characterize elections, and free from the expectation that, yet again, the powerful ruling party would prevail, as it has since this nation won independence in 1980. But the July 30 poll has only produced protests, then violent outbursts, in which security forces fatally shot at least six people. Now, a legal... Читать дальше...