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Zimbabwe doctors treat 68 for gunshot wounds, police arrest hundredsMacDonald DzirutweHARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean doctors said on Thursday they had treated nearly 70 people for gunshot wounds while police rounded up hundreds after violent protests this week triggered by a steep rise in fuel prices. The protests, only five months after six people were killed in post-election demonstrations last August, pose a challenge for President Emmerson Mnangagwa who promised to repair the struggling economy after he replaced long-time leader Robert Mugabe following a coup in November 2017.Three people died during the protests but rights groups, lawyers and witnesses said scores of people were beaten by soldiers, pointing to a heavy crackdown on dissent by security forces. Continued at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zimbabwe-politics-idUSKCN1PB0CZ
Zimbabwe -- where the only "change" is... for the worse.