Police and soldiers manned checkpoints and ordered hundreds of people trying to enter Harare to return home
Similar actions were being witnessed in other smaller towns across the country, according to the Zimbabwe Peace Project, an NGO that says it has monitors scattered across the country.Organizers say demonstrators originally planned to protest alleged government corruption but are now targeting the counry’s ruling political party, ZANU-PF, using the hashtag #ZANUPFmustgo.” Tensions are rising in the southern African country as the economy implodes.
That would be “a staggering 60 per cent of the population – owing to the combined effects of drought, economic recession and the pandemic,” said the WFP, appealing for more money to intervene. The opposition and human rights NGOs have said they are witnessing abuses such as arrests, detentions, beatings and stalking of activists and ordinary people accused of violating lockdown rules.
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