Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was in intensive care with a broken skull on Wednesday following what he says was a brutal police attack while in custody, his spokesperson said. ”He has just had a brain scan because his skull is cracked,” said spokesperson William Bango.
At least 34 people died in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Tuesday when a commuter bus crashed into a cargo train at a rail crossing, police said. Several other people were injured in the accident, which left bloodied and disfigured bodies strewn around a large swamp.
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/ 21 February 2007
Zimbabwe police on Wednesday imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests to calm rising tensions in Harare’s volatile townships, a move the opposition likened to ”a state of emergency”. The ban followed weekend clashes between the police and opposition Movement for Democratic Change supporters in Highfield township.
Doctors at Zimbabwe’s state hospitals have gone on strike for better pay to combat galloping inflation, marooning sick patients in packed waiting rooms in the latest sign of the country’s economic meltdown. Economic analysts warned that workers in other sectors could also boycott work as they grapple with a deep recession, which critics blame on President Robert Mugabe’s policies.