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Vol 63 No 3

Published 3rd February 2022


Zimbabwe

New bid to revive the opposition

Nelson Chamisa hopes to replace the MDC, which dissolved in acrimony, with a new party that can take on the government

On 24 January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main opponent in the last general elections, Nelson Chamisa, launched a new political party, hoping to close the chapter of rivalries and splits that marked the demise of the country's dominant opposition party for over 20 years, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

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