UN boss Ban Ki-moon renewed his call Thursday for postponing the presidential runoff election in violence-wracked Zimbabwe until conditions for a fair and credible vote can be created.

On the eve of the balloting, from which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out, Ban said: "this presidential runoff election should be postponed until such time when we can create fair and credible conditions."

He added that he had been discussing the issue with African...

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HARARE, 23 June 2008 (IRIN) - Yvonne Chipowera endured 16 hours of beatings, rape and being urinated on, all because of her support for Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

She said about 30 militiamen loyal to President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party broke into her house on 9 June in Epworth, a sprawling township on the edge of the capital, Harare. They began marching the 24-year-old MDC activist to a house allegedly owned by a local ZANU-PF...

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Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has added his voice to the growing international condemnation of the political violence in Zimbabwe.

In his first public comments about the crisis, he noted "the tragic failure of leadership" of President Robert Mugabe.



Nelson Mandela in London, 25 June 2008.

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MBABANE, 25 June 2008 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe’s presidential run-off election scheduled for 27 June should be called off, regional leaders meeting in Swaziland said on Wednesday.

“If the election were to be held under present circumstances, it would compromise the credibility and legitimacy of the results,” said a statement released by King Mswati III, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and a representative of Angolan Prime Minister, Fernando dos Santos.

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