Police has used batons and fired tear gas to break up an anti-government march in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, the latest protest against President Robert Mugabe’s handling of the country’s economic crisis and alleged corruption, Aljazeera reports.
The demonstrators handed in a petition to the finance ministry, opposing the impending introduction of “bond notes” as a cash substitute.
The new bond notes are to be pegged to the US dollar and would have no value outside Zimbabwe, but people fear they will devalue as before.
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