CONSITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: Zimbabwe has detained the leading opponent of planned constitutional amendments that would extend the rule of the country’s president, Emmerson Mnnangagwa, and make the post elected by Parliament, not the people. Former finance minister Tendai Biti was set to appear in court today.

Mr Biti leads the Constitutional Defenders Forum (CDF), a group campaigning against the amendments. CDF spokesman Jacob Rukweza said Mr Biti and programmes director Morgan Ncube are accused of holding a public meeting without notifying police.

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