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...The man, Sengezo Tshabangu, then won backing from parliament’s Zanu-PF Speaker to remove a group of CCC lawmakers and trigger the by-elections....
...Yet FAZ also appears to mirror divisions within Zanu-PF itself. The group has been blamed by some in the party for the ouster of Zanu-PF stalwarts including ministers in this year’s primaries....
...The SADC secretariat on Saturday criticised “crude, scurrilous and misleading” attacks on the group’s observers in Zimbabwe’s media, which is dominated by state outlets....
...Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu-PF has been in power since independence in 1980....
...However, analysts suggested other regional leaders may let the matter slide after intensive lobbying by Zanu-PF....
...Before the arrests of their members overnight, the two domestic observer groups noted “widespread cases of intimidation of voters through the setting up of exit polls and recording names by Zanu-PF”....
...Zimbabwean police also arrested dozens of observers from local civil society groups....
...Rights groups have condemned his ‘Patriotic Bill’ which they say is the latest attempt to stifle political opposition....
...Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF have emphasised the infrastructure that the state has managed to build without access to global capital markets....
...Chamisa re-established the opposition just over a year ago after it lost the MDC name to another group in a court battle that analysts say has helped Zanu-PF to divide its opponents....
...I actually had to learn about the concept of blackness and how it was applied to me . . . and the idea of belonging to a group.”...
...Moreover, despite new insights from Form PF, visibility into the private credit space remains limited....
...Zimbabwe’s lithium boom also comes with the unpredictable politics of the Zanu-PF government....
...This brings us to the main challenge of the Pottery Barn rule — showing that a certain group broke something. Enter the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, or OFR....
...Mastercard was fined £31.5m, with the rest split between Prepaid Financial Services (PFS), allpay, APS and Sulion following the PSR’s investigation....
...fuel magnate and ally of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is at the heart of a growing corruption scandal in the southern African nation over his perceived grip on state resources and the ruling Zanu-PF...
...Antivirals Taskforce, give the UK access to 480,000 courses of MSD’s molnupiravir pill, which could be available for use as early as mid-November, and 250,000 courses of Pfizer’s antiviral offering, known as PF...
...Allpay, PFS and APS issued prepaid cards using Mastercard’s card scheme....
...Professor Ravi Gupta, a member of the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), called for the government to take action now....
...the ANC’s agenda because of “reality checks accelerated by Covid” about the economic strain put on South Africa by the crisis on its border, said Piers Pigou, a consultant with the International Crisis Group...
...Pfizer started a phase 1 study last month for PF-07321332, saying lab studies concluded the oral drug was “potent”....
...“The Sakunda group of companies are fully integrated and each operates for the common benefit of all the companies who are affiliated under the broad umbrella of the group,” Brown said in the filing....
...Trafigura said that the group currently uses less than a third of the pipeline’s capacity....
...“When it was tied to Mnangagwa’s family, it became a big issue for Zanu-PF.”...
...s a deep sense of unhappiness among certain elements of the military, but there’s a lot of misinformation, and disinformation, flying around,” said Piers Pigou, a consultant at the International Crisis Group...
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