Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, a non-profit group, said the opposition members were charged with “committing public violence” during Wednesday’s protests in Harare. At least six people died after troops opened fire on demonstrators alleging that Mnangagwa had stolen Monday’s election from Chamisa. Mnangagwa has accused the opposition of fomenting the unrest, but said on Friday that he would set up an independent commission to investigate the killings. Mnangagwa won 50.8 percent against Chamisa’s 44.3 percent, according to the Zimbabwe Election Commission — just scraping over the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a second run-off round. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network, a non-partisan observer group, estimated Chamisa could have won up to 47.8 percent of the vote based on its monitoring work.

Source: The Guardian August 04, 2018 09:22 UTC