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Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. March 26 - 2022 Zimbabwean by-elections. [1] April 15 - At least 35 people are killed and 71 others are injured when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering crashes in Chipinge. [2] May 26 - Zimbabwean courts rule that the age of consent in Zimbabwe must be raised to 18. [3]
[14] [15] On 20 October 2023, president Mnangagwa proclaimed 9 December 2023 as the date for the by-elections. [16] The Harare High Court rejected the expelled CCC MPs' appeal to be reinstated on 4 November 2023. [17] On 7 November 2023, the Nomination Court sat to receive papers from candidates for the by-elections. [18]
On election day itself ZANU–PF won 136 seats and the CCC 73, with ZANU–PF retaining its rural base and the CCC capturing the urban vote. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Voting in the Gutu West constituency was postponed to 11 November after one of the candidates died shortly before the elections. [ 11 ]
The 2022 Zimbabwean by-elections were held on 26 March 2022, to fill in vacancies in the Parliament of Zimbabwe and in local government. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) won 19 out of the 28 national assembly seats in the constituencies . [ 3 ]
Province 1990 1996 2002 2008 2013 2018 2023; Bulawayo: ZANU–PF ZANU–PF MDC MDC–T MDC–T MDC A CCC Harare: ZANU–PF ZANU–PF MDC MDC–T MDC–T MDC A
14 October – The first two cases of mpox in Zimbabwe are recorded in a child in Harare who had travelled to South Africa and a 24-year old patient in Mberengwa who had travelled to Tanzania. [ 6 ] 16 October – The government announces compensation payments for white farmers displaced by the expropriation program of former president Robert ...
Mnangagwa's ZANU–PF also wins a majority in the National Assembly elections. Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change rejects the results, alleging electoral irregularities. [2] 12 October – 2023 Zimbabwe cholera outbreak: Zimbabwe bans gatherings of more than 50 people amid a cholera outbreak in the country. [3]
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