AFRICA TURNS UP HEAT ON ZIMBABWE !

Observers have been witnessing violence at first hand.
African states monitoring Zimbabwe's election campaign have added their voice to growing international pressure over the presidential run-off vote.
Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe, who heads a troika of observer states, told the BBC mounting violence could make a free vote impossible.
A spokesman for the governing Zanu-PF party dismissed Mr Membe's remarks.
A key figure opposition figure, Tendai Biti, has meanwhile been charged with treason and subversion.
Mr Biti, who as secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has often deputised for presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai, was arrested last week after returning from South Africa.

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If convicted, Mr Biti could face the death penalty.
The MDC has reported the discovery near the capital Harare of the bodies of four of its members. They had, it said, been abducted and tortured to death.
An MDC spokesman accused supporters of President Robert Mugabe of being behind the deaths ahead of the 27 June election.
The body of Abigail Chiroto, wife of Harare's recently elected opposition mayor, Emmanuel Chiroto, has also been found. She had reportedly been abducted on Monday along with her son, 4, while her husband was away.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told an informal meeting of the UN Security Council that the actions of Zimbabwe's government have ensured the vote will be neither free nor fair.
"By its actions, the Mugabe regime has given up any pretence that the 27 June elections will be allowed to proceed in a free and fair manner," she said.

Mr Membe was speaking at a news conference on behalf of the three nations - Tanzania, Angola and Swaziland - from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) monitoring the polls.

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"The first impression we have is that if the elections were to take place today, these elections would never be free and fair... because... the report we received still indicates that violence is escalating throughout Zimbabwe," he told the BBC.
"We have received a report that says on the 16th of June this year, as the observers were being deployed to those various stations, two people were shot dead.
"Of course, it scared most of these observers to the extent that they had to pose the question of why are we here then, and what are we doing?"
"There is a derailment of Mr Tsvangirai wherever he wants to go to campaign, he's detained at police stations," Mr Membe added.
Speaking for the Zimbabwean ruling party, Jerome Macdonald Gumbo accused the Tanzanian foreign minister of bias.

"Skirmishes between the MDC and Zanu-PF are normal but not to the extent that the elections cannot be free and fair," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
"He [Mr Membe] is biased."
Correspondents say SADC is the international grouping with the most influence on Zimbabwe, as it is made up of its neighbours.
His remarks are the latest in a growing chorus of opinion across Africa that Zimbabwe's elections now appear to be fatally flawed, the BBC's Peter Greste reports from neighbouring South Africa.
Observer numbers slashed
Zimbabwe's own independent electoral watchdog, the election support network, says it has at last been formally invited to monitor the poll but only with 500 observers.
That is a tiny fraction of the 12,000 the network had hoped to deploy to keep track of the 9,000 polling stations that will be opened on election day.
The network has been credited with helping to keep the first round of the election relatively free and fair but even now its members have come under attack, our correspondent says.
One of its observers was murdered earlier this week.
The MDC says at least 70 of its supporters have now been killed and 25,000 forced from their homes in a state-sponsored campaign of violence.
Speaking to BBC Radio Four, Emmanuel Chiroto said his wife's body had been hard to identify.
"She was badly swollen, it was like they used a club or some blunt object to smash her head and blood had been coming out of her mouth, nostrils and ears," the mayor-elect of Harare said.
"There was either a stab wound or a bullet wound that hit the abdomen."

BBC NEWS REPORT.