On 30 July, Zimbabweans are going to the polls to elect the first post-Mugabe government. Reyhana Masters, IFEX's Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Editor, is in Harare. She is monitoring events as they unfold on the ground – and the response of NGOs and individual Zimbabweans to them – and will be sharing news, observations, and reflections with IFEX readers, in this space.
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