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40,000 displaced in Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG,May 8: Some 40,000 farmworkers and their families have been displaced as a result of violence and intimidation by pro-government militias since Zimbabwe’s elections, a union leader said on Thursday.
“Since the elections we have recorded a total of 40,000 people who have been displaced,” Gertrude Hambira, general secretary of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe, told a press conference in Johannesburg.—AFP
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