The world can’t stand by during Zimbabwe’s election crisis

By Tom Rogan

Published August 2, 2018 8:57pm ET

The world can’t stand by during Zimbabwe’s election crisis — Opposition MDC party supporters burn election posters with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa during protest in the streets of Harare Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Hundreds of angry opposition supporters outside Zimbabwe's electoral commission were met by riot police firing tear gas as the country awaited the results of Monday's presidential election, the first after the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. | (AP)

Following its first purportedly democratic election in many years, Zimbabwe is again on the verge of civil war.

On Thursday evening, Zimbabwe’s election authority released results that showed the contest between President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling ZANU-PF party and opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa is too close to call.

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