MOSTLY FALSE:, Video of patients dancing in a COVID-19 quarantine centre is from Mumbai. Misleading:, Patricia Bullrich (former Minister of Security in Argentina): “Only 25% of Argentine companies have come to have some help from the State”. The government has blamed the protests on the main opposition and local rights groups, saying they were part of a plot to overthrow Mnangagwa’s government.MISLEADING:," An article stating that Italian authorities knew about a promising drug that could cure Covid-19, but they ignored it."įALSE:, A video showing a light show at the Eiffel Tower in Paris is shared with messages indicating that it is a tribute to the victims of COVID-19.įALSE:, Delhi police released this coronavirus guideline.įALSE:, The Argentine company La Campagnola closed due to quarantine.įALSE:," SARS-CoV-2 is a “bacterial infection,” not a virus." Zimbabweans accuse President Mnangagwa of failing to live up to pre-election pledges to kick-start growth and to have a clean break from the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe, who was forced out in a de facto coup in November 2017. “They are alleging that he incited violence through Twitter and other forms of social media in the central business district,” Beatrice Mtetwa, Mawarire’s lawyer, said on Wednesday. Police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd gathering for bread at a shopping centre near central Harare on Wednesday, as businesses remained shut, a Reuters witness said.Īctivist pastor Evan Mawarire, who led a national shutdown in 2016, was arrested from his house in a Harare suburb. Another rights group said 26 people suffered gunshot wounds and that some were afraid to go to hospitals for fear of arrest or assault. The news agency Reuters reported that three people, including a police officer, died during Monday’s demonstrations in the capital and second city Bulawayo.Įight people were killed on Monday when police and military fired on crowds, according to Amnesty International. “As I have said numerous times, everyone in Zimbabwe has the right to express themselves freely – to speak out, to criticize and to protest,” he said, before adding that the demonstrations involved “violence and vandalism” and were not “peaceful, legal protests”. He is on a European trip that is meant to shore up investment in Zimbabwe’s ailing economy. “I’ve been deeply saddened by the events in our beloved homeland,” Mnangagwa said in a statement on Twitter. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa broke his silence and called for calm while he is out of the country. The southern African nation has experienced an acute shortage of dollars that has hampered imports of fuel and drugs and caused a spike in prices. Since 2009, after hyperinflation and the devaluation of the Zimbabwean dollar, authorities refused to use national currency in payments and replaced it with US dollars, euros, South African rands and yuan. Ours is all about the skyrocketing prices of basic needs from fuel, health and food,” said Kumbirai Magorimbo, while reading newspaper headlines in central Harare. The action comes shortly after junior doctors ended a 40-day strike demanding salaries in US dollars and better working conditions. Workers’ trade unions called for a three-day nationwide shutdown to protest the government’s decision to more than double the price of fuel. There was no public transport and some people could be seen walking from townships into the city centre. In central Harare, shops, banks, fast-food chains, and some government offices were closed on Wednesday with little traffic on the roads. An uneasy calm returned to Zimbabwe‘s main cities but businesses and schools remained closed and mobile networks enforced a government internet shutdown on the final day of a national strike triggered by a steep rise in fuel prices.
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