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Significance
With a currency crisis deepening, and COVID-19-related restrictions forcing millions deeper into poverty and malnutrition, unease is growing within and outside the ZANU-PF government. Meanwhile, Harare is exploiting opposition divisions and bolstering the splinter Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) faction.
Impacts
Politically connected elites may exploit the currency crisis, making substantial profits selling US dollars on the black market.
Mooted mass protests by the opposition would likely face a heavy-handed security response.
Media and legal professionals face worsening intimidation amid growing government defensiveness under the cover of COVID-19 restrictions.
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military,
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