MDC wants UN-monitored polls

The country's opposition, led by former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC, has stepped up its demand for next year's elections to be monitored by the United Nations (UN), following the announcement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his inauguration speech last Friday that the polls will be going ahead as planned.

Their demands are based on fears that Zanu-PF could fiddle with the ballot as what they claimed happened in the 2008 elections which saw the presidential results being withheld for six weeks.