By RFIPalled on 19-08-2019Modified on 19-08-2019 at 16:05
The army and police were deployed on Monday morning, August 19, in Bulawayo, in the south-west of the country. It is in this stronghold of the opposition that the protest march organized by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was banned this Sunday.
The tension is very strong. Policemen and soldiers crisscross the city center of Bulawayo and its surroundings in trucks and armored cars or on horseback.
The challenge is to warn the population against demonstrations. Dams are installed on the main roads leading to the city center and part of the business district has even been cordoned off by the police. According to several sources contacted by RFI, the demonstrators did not want to force the passage this morning.
The opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has yet to formally pronounce on the ban on walking it had planned this Sunday, August 18 in the city. The party also called last week for a series of protests in the capital against the management of the economy by the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa .
Last Friday, the brutal crackdown on a demonstration , also banned, saw the police use tear gas, whips and batons.
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