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    On the campaign trail, Zimbabweans cautiously test new freedoms

    Jul 26, 2018 5 minutes
    Looney Nyalugwe, an opposition candidate for local office in Murehwa, a rural area near Harare, does door to door campaigning on a morning in July 2018. She says this is the first election in which opposition candidates have campaigned openly in the area, a ruling party stronghold.

    In a narrow beige office at the end of a narrow beige corridor, keyboards frantically click and clack as a team of call center employees scrambles to take down reports of what sounds like an unusual criminal enterprise.

    “So they told you that food aid was only for supporters of the ruling party?”

    “They said there are cameras in the voting booth so they can see who you vote for?”

    “Who exactly was it who threatened you, baba?”

    “What happened next?”

    Every day, dozens of calls pour into an election complaints hotline in Zimbabwe’s capital, organized by a coalition of civil society groups called “We The People.”

    As the country’s July 30 vote approaches, they say the number of complaints is ticking upwards, with most

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