Many expected Zimbabwe's 2023 and 2018 elections to catalyze much-needed political transformation following the 2017 "military-assisted" political transition named Operation Restore. Both elections offered hope that Zimbabwe would restore democratic rule and, more importantly, provide peace and political stability after the decades of instability that characterized the rule of the late former president Robert Mugabe…
Itai Dzamara’s wife Sheffra is right. Dzamara’s case needs to be closed. Six years is a long time to wait, especially when there seems to be no prospect of getting an answer. Dzamara, a former journalist started a one-man protest in Africa Unity Square in what became Occupy Africa Unity Square described by Frontline Defenders
The government arrested Alec Muchadehama and Andrew Makoni, two prominent human rights lawyers who were representing 31 opposition officials, and charged them with obstruction of justice. Police ignored a series of court orders granting the detainees access to their lawyers and ordering their release. The list of those arrested was almost a who-is-who in the