UN Experts to Probe Alleged Rights Violations in Zimbabwe
United Nations human rights experts have called on the government to end what they called "a pattern of disappearances and torture aimed at suppressing dissent". In a hard-hitting statement, the team called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to "cease all abductions, torture and hold perpetrators to account as a matter of urgency".
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Zimbabwe:
Govt Under Fire From UN Rights Experts Over Abductions
allAfrica, 15 June 2020
Expressing “grave alarm”, UN human rights experts have called on Zimbabwe to immediately end a reported pattern of disappearances and torture that appear aimed at… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
UN to Dispatch Experts to Probe Rights Abuses
New Zimbabwe, 11 June 2020
The government's renewed crackdown against critics has caught the attention of the United Nations which has expressed its desires to send a team of experts to Zimbabwe to assess… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
MDC Drama - Mnangagwa's Govt Shooting Itself in the Foot
Zimbabwe Independent, 12 June 2020
The takeover of the headquarters of the opposition MDC-Alliance by the MDC-T faction led by Thokozani Khupe with the aid of soldiers and police officers, as well as the dramatic… Read more »
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Africa:
Court of Human Rights On the Brink of Collapse
DW, 11 June 2020
Civil society rejoiced when the Tanzania-based African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights was established in 1998. But the dream for justice within the continent risks falling… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Misa Blasts State for Snooping On Citizen Movements
New Zimbabwe, 9 June 2020
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe has expressed worry over government's increased surveillance on citizens following Justice Minister Kazembe Kazembe's… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Army, Police Top Human Rights Violations - Watchdog
263Chat, 8 June 2020
For the second time this year, the police and army have topped the list of perpetrators of human rights violations, according to the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP). Read more »
InFocus
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The Zimbabwean government has dismissed as false, allegations of an impending coup to dethrone President Emmerson Mnangagwa, accusing allies of the late former president Robert Mugabe and some opposition officials of peddling false rumours. Zimbabwe's worst economic crisis in more than a decade and rising public anger have stoked concern the military, which ended Mugabe's more than three-decades rule in November 2017, might step in again.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has called for the lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe and Sudan as both countries struggle to cope with the economic and social impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The two nations still face some U.S. restrictions, complicating attempts to get the debt relief that all African countries are seeking. Meanwhile, AU Chairperson President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken the fight to G20 countries, the International Monetary Fund, and World Bank among other international
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First, it was the alleged abduction and torture of three opposition activists by suspected state security agents, followed by the arrest of private media journalists Frank Chikowore and Samuel Takawira who were detained for four nights for allegedly violating lockdown regulations. Although abductions and disappearances of activists were most common in Zimbabwe during the rule of the late former president Robert Mugabe, it seems they have continued under Mugabe's successor, President Emmerson
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa (file photo).
