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Scores hurt in weekend clashes

    JOHANNESBURG

    Scores of people were injured in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at the weekend in clashes between government and opposition supporters attending election rallies at two adjacent shopping centres.

    News reports said the windows of a house belonging a candidate for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front Party (ZANU-PF) were smashed by supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

    The clashes are the latest incidents in a countrywide campaign of intimidation and violence that have claimed at least 24 lives, most of them MDC supporters and activists. The violence involves more than 700 white-owned farms which have been invaded by ZANU-PF supporters led by independence war veterans. Human rights activists told IRIN that thousands of farm employees had been forced off the land.

    Police did not disclose details of any arrests or injuries during the weekend skirmishes.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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