US has no moral right to levy sanctions on Zimbabwe, says President Mnangagwa
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19/01/2021 - 15:42 Zimbabwean president and ZANU-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to distant himself and his party from the legacy of his predecessor, Robert Mugabe AFP 5 min As the United States gears up for the swearing in of Joe Biden on Wednesday, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for the lifting of US sanctions against his country. He reasoned that the US has no right to punish other nations in the name of democracy after the insurrection at the US Capitol. However, Zimbabwe s own human rights record looms over the two year anniversary of a brutal protest crackdown.
STATEMENT ON THE JUST ENDED UGANDAN ELECTIONS
The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC A) is deeply concerned by the just-ended fundamentally flawed elections in Uganda.
The elections were marred by human rights abuses and fell short of regional and international standards governing democratic elections including the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.
We urge the international community to hold President Yoweri Museveni’s government to account and not to lower the bar for free, fair and democratic elections as doing so encourages dictators across the African continent.
Despite criticising African leaders who subverted democratic processes to remain in power during his early days, President Yoweri Museveni manipulated the country’s Constitution to remove the presidential age limit in order to extend his stay in power as one of Africa’s longest-serving authoritarian leaders.
After spending a week behind bars, opposition alliance spokeswoman gets bail in capital Harare Jeffrey Moyo | 18.01.2021
HARARE, Zimbabwe
The jailed spokeswoman for a Zimbabwean opposition party was granted bail Monday after spending a week behind bars in the country’s notorious Chikurubhi maximum prison.
Fadzai Mahere, spokeswoman for the Movement for Democratic Change Alliancem, was accused of falsehood in a case involving a claim of police brutality during lockdown earlier this month in the capital Harare.
Handing down the $10,000 bail ruling for Mahere, Harare magistrate Trynos Utahwashe ordered that she must not interfere with the case of Rebecca Musariri, the mother of a baby inaccurately said to have been beaten by the police.
The state alleges that Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono published or communicated in his Twitter account false statements prejudicial to the state charges that the award-winning documentary filmmaker is denying.
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