EU observers target remote areas

THE European Union (EU) says it will deploy more than 150 observers to Zimbabwe’s August 23 elections.

Brussels revealed this yesterday as it deployed the first batch of 46 observers to the country’s 10 provinces ahead of the harmonised polls.

The EU election observer mission in Zimbabwe said its team was ready to cover the “hard-to-reach areas” to impartially assess the plebiscite’s credibility, freeness and fairness.

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