Zimbabwe: Crackdown On Activists Raises Global Alarm

Human rights and civil society organizations across Africa have raised alarms over the intensifying repression in Zimbabwe, warning of a severe crackdown on civic freedoms and democratic principles.

In a statement, forty-four organizations from across the continent castigated what they termed state-sponsored violence which have been characterised by arbitrary arrests and brutal harassment of human rights activists and opposition members.

“Human rights and civil society organizations across the…