Credibility of Zimbabwean elections questioned

A dispute continues to grow over the transparency and legitimacy of Zimbabwe’s elections last week and the issue could be headed for the next summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) after Botswana publicly questioned the credibility of the polling. Botswana is a long-standing critic of Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and has announced that the findings of its 80-strong observer team suggested that "an acceptable standard for free and fair elections" had not been met.

The Botswana statement focused on problems around the voters' roll, the forms of identification needed to vote and what it called "credible allegations" of people being denied the right to vote - issues similar to those raised by the official observer missions of SADC and the African Union.

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