Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa’s Third Term Bid Foments Violence

The ruling party’s decision to extend President Mnangagwa’s second term in office is inflaming tensions in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid for an unconstitutional third term turned violent this week. A hall in Harare was torched hours before his opponents were to meet there to launch a campaign against his efforts to run again. And in the country’s second largest city Bulawayo, riot police forcefully prevented a similar meeting from taking place.

Opposition politicians…