_Ann Talbot_ considers how pressure from the US, which considers Zimbabwe a threat to the economic stability of the continent, may make pliant African leaders turn on Robert Mugabe's regime. She also highlights how any further sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe will only deepen its people's misery and enhance the likelihood of military intervention as the situation spirals out of control.

In order to legitimise the tyrannical actions of his regime, Mugabe appeals to anti-colonial rhetoric, whereas in its condemnation Britain invokes the language of human rights. Both discourses are debased by this hypocrisy, and the realities of power also concealed, writes _Priyamvada Gopal_.

With the withdrawal of Morgan Tsvangirai from the Zimbabwean elections, Robert Mugabe has hardly left the news. Democracy Now hosts a discussion on the country with University of Houston Professor, Gerald Horne, and Syracuse University University Professor, Horace Campbell

What is happening in Zimbabwe today is a crime against humanity that should not be allowed to continue for one more day - precisely why Gordon Brown should engage with its government, writes Andy Rowell.