No such thing as a quiet Friday. BBC News reports that China has finally accepted defeat and recalled the An Yue Jiang (although This is Zimbabwe are still reporting it due in Angola today) - they’re labelling the decision “victory for civic society”:
Rights groups hailed the move as a major victory, a triumph of [...]

Rather than repeat what others have already dug up about the Chinese arms shipment, here’s a link to Sokwanele’s consolidated post on the issue - it has details of the current situation and will be regularly updated with news as the get it.

More on the Chinese arms currently parked off Durban, courtesy of The Times of South Africa - and more for the South African Government to be thoroughly ashamed of.
First of all, the shipment was expected and approved of by the government’s National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), whose scrutiny committee met earlier in the week [...]

Okay, this just in from the “what the f*ck?” department. Two separate but probably related stories:
First up, armed Chinese soldiers have been seen on the streets of Mutare:
However … there was a surprise presence of Chinese soldiers armed with revolvers in the city. The Chinese, together with about 70 Zimbabwean senior army officers [...]