Zimbabwe
April 2008
On 24 April, the Secretary-General held talks with Tsvangirai in Accra, Ghana over the protracted post-election crisis in Zimbabwe and expressed concern about the post-electoral situation and the prevalence violence and polarization. On 16 April, at the High-Level debate in the Council on the Peace and Security in Africa, eight members of the Council (Belgium, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Italy, Panama, UK and US) expressed concern about the situation in Zimbabwe and called for free and fair elections and the release of the results of the presidential elections. A few days before, on 12 April, an extraordinary summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was convened in Lusaka, Zambia, to discuss the political situation in Zimbabwe.
March 2008
On 29 March, elections (presidential, house of assembly, senate and local councils) were held in Zimbabwe. The security situation in Zimbabwe deteriorated seriously following these elections in which the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party emerged as having the widest public support.
