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Zimbabwe's Rights Abuses May Dent Hope of Lifting Sanctions

Columbus Mavhunga

   HARARE, ZIMABABWE - Activists and the main opposition party in Zimbabwe
   say the country is not ready for the end of U.S. and European
   sanctions, accusing the government of continued human rights
   violations. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sympathizers say lifting
   sanctions will help country's ailing economy, but economists disagree.

   TatendaMombeyarara, the leader of the activist group Citizens
   Manifesto,opposes planned protests by regional leaders to demand the
   end of Western sanctions imposed on formerPresident Robert Mugabe and
   his allies in 2002 for election rigging and human rights abuses.

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