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A crackdown last week on protests in Zimbabwe is a foretaste of how the government will respond to future unrest, the president’s spokesman was quoted saying on Sunday, fuelling concerns that the southern African country is reverting to…
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State security agents have maintained a heavy presence on the country’s major roads following a three-day stay-away that took place early last week.
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The palpable fear among many Zimbabweans that 2019 would become yet another “annus horribilis” — Latin for a horrible year — has become a harrowing reality, with the country’s political and economic situation declining ever more rapidly.
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United States senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons — who are both members of Washington’s influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee — have blasted the government over the heavy handedness of the security agents on protestors.
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Hundreds of panicking shoppers thronged supermarkets and engaged in panic buying after some of the country’s leading retailers opened their doors to the public following three days of closure due to a crippling national strike.
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Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country’s trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week — shooting  68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-saving surgeries nationally following deadly…
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Kirsty Coventry: "What has happened in Zimbabwe has saddened me immensely. I am sorry to everyone that has been affected by the recent events. Violence is never the answer and needs to be investigated and actions taken. We need peace so no…
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The U.N. human rights office is denouncing reported “excessive use of force” by Zimbabwe’s security forces against protesters opposed to dramatic fuel price increases and austerity measures.
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Zimbabwe on Friday faced a “total internet shutdown,” a media group said, after a days-long violent crackdown on people protesting a dramatic fuel price increase. Badly injured people streamed into a hospital in the capital after alleged…
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One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s opponents in last year’s Presidential contest has told him to ‘urgently return’ home and assume control of government amid a heavy crackdown on dissent by security forces.
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