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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the coming elections are about the transfer of power from President Robert Mugabe to himself and this time the Movement for Democratic Change will not allow a situation where a person who loses an election is brought into government through coalition.

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Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking. Women and girls from Zimbabwean towns bordering South Africa, Mozambique, and Zambia are subjected to prostitution in brothels that cater to long-distance truck drivers on both sides of the borders.

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The Global Political Agreement which ushered the inclusive government that has been running the country over the past four years was treated as a “ceasefire” document and as a framework for further negotiation rather than as a formal agreement to be implemented.

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The House of Assembly yesterday adjourned to Tuesday next week, 25 June, without debating the amendments to the electoral law necessary to align the coming elections to the new constitution.

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Dewa Mavhinga, a senior researcher with the Africa Division of the New York-based Human Rights Watch, on Tuesday gave a testimony to the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, subcommittee on African Affairs. The subcommittee held a special session on Zimbabwe entitled: Examining prospects for democratic reform and economic recovery in Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe’s voters’ roll is so shambolic that Theresa Makone, the co-Minister of Home Affairs, which is responsible for the roll and updating it, was not even on the roll though she voted in 2008.

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Debate on the amendments to the electoral law to make it compliant with the new constitution, ahead of the elections due in just over a month, did not come up again in Parliament yesterday.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti told Parliament yesterday that the country did not have money for elections, due in just over a month, and accused Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu of blocking efforts to raise the money.

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On 15 June, the Southern Africa Development Community held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Mozambique’s capital of Maputo. The main issue discussed was the Zimbabwean elections, currently scheduled for the 31 July.

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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has filed an urgent application with the court to have Zimbabwe’s elections held on 14 August.

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