![[Zimbabwe] Elderly women waiting for food distribution](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/200331828.jpg.webp?itok=yEmzWGP8 "Waiting for food aid distribution - poor production has hit all of Zimbabwe's staple crops")
Two more Sudanese lawyers have been detained in connection with the arrest of seven leading opposition politicians in a meeting with a US diplomat earlier this month. The opposition National Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (NARD) said Sa’ati Muhammad al-Hajj and Hadi Ahmad Uthman, both members of NARD, had been arrested last week, AFP said. Hajj was reportedly arrested from his office Sunday morning, while Uthman had been arrested three days earlier, sources told AFP. No official reason has been given for their arrest. The arrests brought to four the number of opposition lawyers detained since 6 December when security forces broke up the meeting with the diplomat, who was later expelled.
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