SADC has expressed concern over statements made about its electoral observation mission in Zimbabwe and personal attacks on its head, Nevers Mumba, following the release of its preliminary statement on that country’s harmonised elections. President Hakainde Hichilema as Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics Defence and Security Cooperation, appointed Mumba to lead the electoral observation mission in Zimbabwe to observe the recently held polls in which Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa emerged victorious. After the elections, Mumba presented the mission’s preliminary statement on the conduct of the polls where he said that the mission had observed that some aspects of the Harmonised Elections, fell short of the requirements of that country’s Constitution, the Electoral Act, and the SADC Principles and...