UK says ready to observe Zim polls

THE United Kingdom (UK) and its allies have said they are ready to monitor and observe Zimbabwe’s polls expected to be held in August if they are invited.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has since hinted that countries that have in the past invited Zimbabwe to their own plebiscites will be the only ones allowed to observe the country’s harmonised elections.

Recently, UK Conservative member Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park was asked by Labour party member Lord Boateng whether the UK and its allies were considering sending election observers to Zimbabwe’s polls.

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