Zimbabwe: Government crackdown continues

Zimbabwe police have extended a demolition campaign targeting the homes and livelihoods of the urban poor to the vegetable gardens they rely on for food, saying the crops planted on vacant lots are damaging the environment. The crackdown on urban farming - at a time of food shortages in Zimbabwe - is the latest escalation in the government's month-long Operation Murambatsvina (or Drive Out Trash). The UN estimates the campaign has left at least 1,5-million people homeless in the winter cold. Police say more than 30 000 have also been arrested.
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