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Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, plans to organize protests against the government as an economic crisis worsens, its leader Morgan Tsvangirai said.
“We are going to mobilize,” Tsvangirai told reporters today in the capital, Harare. “We are drawing a line in the sand and we shall pressurize and mobilize the people because those who claim to be in charge have not demonstrated a desire and commitment to solve the pressing issue.”
President Robert Mugabe, 90, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. His Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party won a five-year term in a July 2013 election that the MDC, Western nations and domestic observers said was flawed.
The economy’s outlook has weakened since the election, with factories closing down, consumer spending coming under pressure and the government struggling to pay wages. Economic growth, which averaged 10 percent from 2009 to 2012, is forecast at 3.1 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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