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Zim Watch

EU sanctions will be "carefully targetted", whether they will be effective is another matter. But that's not the idea, is it? The opposition are bullish about their chances, and polls are said to show Mugabe trailing badly. Caveat Lector, these are secret polls and it is not said what methodology was used, whether the pollsters confined themselves to the towns or which organisation carried out these polls. Significantly it was the Americans who highlighted these polls.

Mugabe has banned a swathe of international media from reporting on the election.

Yes, its getting odd. Not only priests arrested, but witch doctors murdered.