This is kinda a big story outside of the US that has been running all year. Tsvangirai did very well in the original election as he won it, but the Mugabe regime refused to release the vote count.
See, I'm late to the party, and this fills in a lot for me. Thanks!
All you've really missed is the sham elections. I don't think anyone has a clue what he was running on, the only thing that mattered was that it wasn't Mugabe. We were constantly told that Tsvangirai (copy paste) would win easily, and that he deserved to win, and then nothing. I feel that the media is giving of a silently annoyed vibe, but they don't really plan to remind us on too many occasions how Tsvangirai should have won.
If anything interesting was going to happen, it would probably happen soon, since the majority of people are bound to realise that voting sure as hell doesn't get things done in Zimbabwe.