Churches fear Zimbabwe 'genocide'Church leaders in Zimbabwe have called for international action to prevent post-election violence developing into genocidal proportions.
African countries and the UN should intervene to deal with a "deteriorating" situation, they said.
The opposition says it won the 29 March presidential poll outright, but results are yet to be released.
Meanwhile, a Chinese ship carrying weapons to Zimbabwe may return to China after being blocked in South Africa.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai insist they beat President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party outright in presidential and parliamentary polls.
An election recount for 23 out of 210 constituencies that had been due to end on Monday, has been delayed for an unknown period.
The MDC has rejected the recount as illegal.
On Tuesday Mr Tsvangirai said the Zimbabwe Election Commission had been discredited and he would not accept any run-off.
Speaking in Ghana, he appealed for help from the international community.
Post-election violence has displaced 3,000 people, injured 500 and left 10 dead, according to MDC secretary general Tendai Biti.
Human rights groups say they have found camps where people are being tortured for having voted "the wrong way".
But Zimbabwe's Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa denied that anyone had died in political violence.
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