Zimbabwe: Chatham House Report - the Fine Print

BRITISH think-tank Chatham House's April 2014 report, "Zimbabwe's International Re-engagement: The Long Haul to Recovery" by Knox Chitiyo and Steve Kibble is attracting a lot of attention from various quarters, mostly because the think-tank becomes one of the most high-ranking Western organisations to call a spade a spade regarding the contentious 2013 harmonised elections even though on the economy it makes some serious omissions.

Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, has acknowledged that Zanu-PF resoundingly won the harmonised elections. The report reads in part: "A landslide victory by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) in Zimbabwe's elections in 2013 resulted in its comprehensive recapture of the state.

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