Move Sadc summit from Zimbabwe: Activists

SOME Zimbabwean activists and opposition party members have launched a petition for the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to move its summit scheduled for August from Zimbabwe to protest the disputed 2023 elections.

The petitioners argue that it is provoking and disrespectful to the people of Zimbabwe for Sadc to grace an “illegitimate authority” led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The Sadc election observer mission in its preliminary report said Zimbabwe’s August 2023 elections did not meet regional and international standards on the holding of free, fair and credible polls.

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