State agents closely monitoring Tsvangirai

Briefings to the Independent by official sources this week claim PM Morgan Tsvangirai has come under close state watch over his political activities and manoeuvres ahead of elections next year or in 2013 amid fears by President Mugabe and his security operators that he was lobbying to put Zimbabwe on the United Nations Security Council agenda if poll results are disputed again.

Tsvangirai is being closely monitored all over the place by state security agencies as they try to detect and decipher his political moves, mainly after elections, in the wake of events in countries like Ivory Coast and Libya.

Sources said Tsvangirai's latest trip this week to Morocco, which those close to Mugabe are watching with extraordinary interest, have heightened a sense of insecurity and anxiety within the corridors of power in Harare.