Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Zimbabwe Hardliners Tighten Grip in Police Raids."
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Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Zimbabwe Hardliners Tighten Grip in Police Raids."
The bruising regime of Robert Mugabe, in its most aggressive steps yet to hold on to power in Zimbabwe after an apparent loss in Saturday's presidential election, arrested at least two foreign journalists and apparently raided the hotel room of a leading opposition figure.
The police actions came as a troubling sign as the country waited in suspense for the release of official election tallies. Mr. Mugabe is among the most polarizing political figures in Africa, and the historic weekend vote has the potential to end his 28-year rule. [...]
For the moment, it seems, the hard-liners are prevailing. Mr. Mugabe's first crackdown since the polling was aimed at Western media that his party has long painted as biased against him. "The whole Mugabe hardliner argument is that what is going on is an externally driven British and American effort to enact regime change ... aided and abetted by the external media," said Stephen Morrison, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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