Why on earth is anyone waiting anxiously for the result of the run-off “election” in Zimbabwe? If people there are brave enough to dare to vote for the MDC (and resourceful enough to get round all the barriers Mugabe will […]

You may be as surprised as I am that Judge Uchena has ruled against the MDC in its attempt to force the Election Commission to release the results of the recent “election”.

Again the MDC is planning to go to court to challenge the decision of the Zimbabwe Election Commission – which clearly acts on the instructions of Mugabe and Zanu-PF – to order a recount in some constituencies. Nothing could […]

The drawn-out farce of the Zimbabwean “elections” has now taken a mad legal turn, with the MDC going to law to force the election commission to release the results, but being prevented from entering the court by Mugabe’s police. […]

The reason the Pakistani situation caught my interest, and why I thought it was right to cover it to some extent in this blawg, was not just the central importance in that crisis of the Supreme Court, but also the […]