This is sad:

Robert Mugabe apparently retained his presidential post Sunday after the opposition candidate dropped out of this week's runoff because, he said, asking Zimbabweans to vote was asking them to risk their lives.

"The courageous people of Zimbabwe, of this country, and the people of the MDC have done everything humanly and democratically possible to deliver a new Zimbabwe and new government," candidate Morgan Tsvangirai said after a closed-door meeting of his Movement for Democratic Change.

Tsvangirai was the first hope for change in Zimbabwe in many, many years. Mugabe is a disgusting dictator whose human rights violations are well documented. Tsvangirai's campaign has been the victim of these attacks as well:

There have been numerous reports from the opposition and from Zimbabwean church groups of kidnappings, torture and other violence, including the deaths of opposition party members. They say the violence targets opponents of Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, or ZANU-PF.