Zimbabwe: ruling party escalates violence

Militias of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party have stepped up their campaign of violence against opponents ahead of Presidential elections due in eight weeks, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change reported on Sunday. An "orgy of violence" erupted in the central city of Kwekwe on Friday and continued on Saturday where a mob of militiamen burnt down the MDC's provincial offices, and also one of the pro-democracy party's pickup trucks.