The BBC reports that the MDC’s petition to force the release of the Presidential poll results has been rejected – there are no details yet, but on the face of it that gives Zanu-PF a free license to sit on the results for as long as they like.  If the court can’t or won’t order [...]

So the official word from the SADC summit is that Zimbabwe should release the results of the Presidential poll as soon as possible, and urges both sides to accept those results. The only problem is that, over two weeks after the polls closed, any results released now are going to be so heavily massaged [...]