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HARARE, Zimbabwe — A prominent opposition leader and lawmaker in Zimbabwe was convicted Wednesday of obstructing the course of justice for recording a video of himself accusing ruling party supporters of killing and dismembering an activist and posting the video to social media. Job Sikhala, a Parliament member and senior official in the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party, …
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Opposition politicians languishing in prison. Zimbabwe’s general election is several months away but many opposition figures say they are already battling intense government repression similar to the iron-fisted rule of Robert Mugabe, the former president who died in 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is responding with force to opposition to his rule, stoked by worsening economic conditions …
