Members of the African Union Election Observation Mission talk to a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission official at a polling station in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on August 23, 2023. PHOTO | ZINYANGE AUNTONY | AFP
Zimbabwean police have arrested 39 independent election monitors working for two civil society organisations, accusing them of carrying out an illegal parallel voter tabulation exercise.
The arrests followed the extension of voting to a second day in some wards after Wednesday’s chaotic presidential, parliamentary and local government elections.
