The latest is that
Tsvangirai, who was to compete against Mugabe in the runoff elections this week and who withdrew a few days ago, has sought refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare (fleeing soldiers at the time) and received safety assurances. For those who have not read or heard the background by now, between the first election and the runoff, there have been tens of thousands of deaths - as part of a larger form of, apparently, vote-for-Mugabe-and-the-ZANU-PF (his party) campaign of intimidation (destroying homes, threatening jobs, ... and much and much and more).

Understandably and always wishing to be fair, the ZANU-PF expresses a different opinion.

For the latest in a series of stories, see

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7470627.stm. The BBC has been reporting about this for some time, I have been listening to this over their Global News podcasts. (The Mugabe government claims that a vote for their opponent would be a vote for Britain, perhaps because the BBC has not been treating them well in broadcasts and perhaps because Britain was the former colonial power - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe, and - well, I don't claim to know.)