PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved to re-assert his vice-like grip on Zimbabwe s state security service, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which .
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved to re-assert his vice-like grip on Zimbabwe's state security service, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which is critical to his power consolidation and retention bid. Autocratic leaders rely on the intelligence apparatus for regime and personal security including coup-proofing. They often manage powerful, brutal and unaccountable intelligence establishments, which they…