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Thursday, 2 August 2018

Zimbabwe: tense calm in Harare after post-election violence

President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in talks with opposition leader to calm the situation

A tense calm has returned to Harare a day after three people were shot dead as soldiers and police fought running battles with hundreds of protesters, firing live ammunition, teargas and water cannon.

Not even 72 hours after polls closed in Zimbabwe’s presidential election – the first following the fall of Robert Mugabe last year and billed as the beginning of a new era for the impoverished country – soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2AuOZlT

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