HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Britain has sent a formal diplomatic complaint to Zimbabwean authorities protesting harassment of a diplomat and attempts by ruling party supporters to disrupt the handover of a British aid project, officials said Friday.
In a statement, the British embassy said Mugabe's party bussed protesters to a mission hospital in eastern Zimbabwe where the diplomat, second secretary Sarah Bennett, handed over British-funded hospital equipment.
Demonstrators mobbed local officials and visiting dignitaries, demanding the lifting of Western economic sanctions targeted at Mugabe and his ruling elite. It was "deeply depressing" the project was subjected to party …
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