Senior figures at the BBC World Service have expressed concern to the domestic news division that coverage of the Zimbabwe elections has been driven by a colonial agenda, potentially causing damage to the corporation's reputation for impartiality.

Moses Oguti, the detained editor-in-chief of Botswana based magazine "Trans Kalahari", has been transferred to Harare Central Prison, in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Oguti is accused of entering Zimbabwe illegally and misrepresenting information to the police.

Amnesty International is gravely concerned about the high risk of violence in the aftermath of the elections held on 9, 10 and 11 March 2002, especially in light of the departure of many international election observers.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum has completed its interim assessment of the Zimbabwe 2002 elections.

THE rand tumbled almost 3% Wednesday on the news that President Robert Mugabe had won Zimbabwe's presidential election.

They were young, exuberant and deliriously happy, rejoicing at the victory of their leader, Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. And they made sure everybody knew it.

President Bush said Wednesday the United States does not recognize the result of the presidential election in Zimbabwe, won officially by incumbent President Robert Mugabe. "We do not recognize the outcome of the election because we think it's flawed," he told a White House news conference.

The South Africa Observer Mission to Zimbabwe has not delivered a pronouncement pleasing to the diplomatic and media contingents in the country. Grey-haired mission head Sam Motsuenyane sat stunned and flustered as journalists jeered and diplomats walked out after his endorsement of Zimbabwe's poll on Tuesday.

It was out in the countryside of Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe stole the presidential election. Away from prying eyes, Mr Mugabe's loyal party henchmen executed a psephological sleight of hand that was as crude as it was ambitious. Ballot boxes were stuffed, opposition supporters were told to vote for Mr Mugabe on pain of death and turnouts were grossly inflated to favour the 78-year-old leader.

A cloud of bitterness, dejection and anxiety about the future hung over Harare yesterday, but despite outbreaks of low-level violence there was no sign of any appetite for a mass uprising to unseat the re-elected President Robert Mugabe.

As the reported cases of political violence in Zimbabwe rose on Friday, South African President Thabo Mbeki hit out at "white supremacists" critical of the Commonwealth and African response to the deepening crisis.

Zimbabwe's labour movement is likely to call for a mass stay away in protest over alleged government rigging of the country's watershed weekend presidential election, senior union officials told IRIN on Wednesday.

While men have been the high profile targets of Zimbabwe's political violence, concern is beginning to emerge that women may have been its hidden victims.

For a breakdown of polling stations, voter turnout and other facts and figures about the Zimbabwean presidential elections.

President Robert Mugabe won re-election on Wednesday in a victory immediately rejected by his challenger Morgan Tsvangirai, who claimed the Zimbabwean people had been "cheated".

African states come down on the side of Mugabe, while the West slams the poll as unfair.

President Mbeki is the one man who can make an immediate difference as Mugabe pushes Zimbabwe further towards anarchy. It is a time for leadership, writes ZWNEWS.

If the Zimbabwe turnout figures published by the government are to be believed, more people have voted in President Mugabe's stronghold of Mashonaland East province than anywhere else.

Britain and other western countries were left frustrated and impotent yesterday after Robert Mugabe formally declared that he had overwhelmingly won Zimbabwe's presidential election.

Voting in Zimbabwe's presidential elections was concluded on Monday, March 11, 2002. The Zimbabwe chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Zimbabwe) did not receive any serious reports of incidents in which a journalist(s) were either beaten up or arrested.