Lawyers for Zimbabwe’s opposition leader say they have filed a court suit to try to compel the state election commission to release full details of the disputed July 31 election.

A JUDGE yesterday acquitted Roy Bennett, a top aide to Zimbabwe’s prime minister, in an alleged plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, in a case that has strained the unity government.

A judge today acquitted a senior prime minister’s aide of all charges in a terrorism case that had strained Zimbabwe’s struggling coalition government since it was forged more than a year ago.