China says a shipment of weapons bound for Zimbabwe may have to return home, after the vessel was unable to unload in South Africa. Zambia, which chairs the Southern African Development Community, said there were fears that the arms could be used to crack down on protests following parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe last month.
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Aboriginal archive offers new DRM ... Mozambique and Angola have since denied access to their ports. The Zimbabwean government on Sunday announced further delays in a partial election recount, which the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says it won. The delay extends a deadlock in which the MDC says 10 of its members have been killed. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai told Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio that he was concerned by China's arming of President Robert Mugabe's regime.
(Deutsche Welle)
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