It seems that on the way out of office, Bush issued an order making it legal to sell arms to Zimbabwe. He found that, “Furnishing of defense articles and defense services to the Southern African Development Community will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace,” which authorizes sales to Zimbabwe too.

Meanwhile, the MDC is finally flat out saying that Mbeki is unacceptable as a mediator, which they should have done many months ago.

Of course, Mbeki is still there and mediating, and doing his best to enable Mugabe.

We also have reports of Senior MDC officials being arrested, along with reports of plans for an iminent arrest of Morgan Tsvangerai, head of the MDC.

Unsurprisingly, the most recent set of talks on powersharing have failed.