Harare - Zimbabwe police have banned an anti-government demonstration planned for Monday by the country's main opposition party in the city of Bulawayo, saying it would likely result in "public disorder".
The MDC, which accuses President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of repression and mismanagement, called for the protests over the country's worst economic crisis in a decade. MDC leader Nelson Chamisa said on Friday that his party would continue to mobilise against the government but that it wanted to avoid "blood in the streets".
The demonstrations are viewed as a test of Mnangagwa's willingness to tolerate dissent in a country tainted by a long history of repression under his predecessor Robert Mugabe, who ruled for nearly 40 years.
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