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Tension as Zimbabwe security forces seal major towns

Heavy police presence outside Zimbabwe's opposition party MDC- Alliance party headquarters in Harare on June 5, 2020. Zimbabwe's security forces sealed the country's major cities without notice this week. PHOTO | JEKESAI NJIKIZANA | AFP

By  Kitsepile Nyathi

Correspondent in Harare, Zimbabwe

Nation Media Group

HARARE

Zimbabwe's security forces sealed the country's major cities without notice amid claims of plots to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.

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