Zimbabwe’s looming general election is set to be its most inclusive yet: the redrawing of electoral boundaries has put voters in Swaziland, the Indian Ocean and even Antarctica.
Team Pachedu, a pressure group that analysed the demarcations of dozens of voting wards set out by the electoral commission, said wild irregularities pointed to plans for another rigged election in July to favour the Zanu-PF party. The former liberation movement has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980 and has shown no appetite for giving it up.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth in 2002 after an allegedly stolen election kept the late dictator Robert Mugabe in office. The country pulled out from the bloc a year later after the suspension was not lifted,
