{"id":1347,"date":"2018-08-11T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2018-08-11T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T14:29:40","slug":"zimbabwe-enters-a-new-era-but-struggles-to-escape-its-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/11\/zimbabwe-enters-a-new-era-but-struggles-to-escape-its-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe enters a new era, but struggles to escape its past"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Inauguration of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been halted after a legal challenge by the opposition against the election result.)<\/p>\n

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The deadly violence that followed Zimbabwe’s first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted has created tension in a country that was hoping to put its past behind it, says BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane.<\/p>\n

The political drama in this country has oscillated between euphoria, tragedy and farce – from a remarkably peaceful election day, to the shooting down of unarmed protesters, to the extraordinary sight of a president disowning the actions of his own police.<\/p>\n

Each day has produced the unexpected and created a febrile atmosphere in which questions about who really controls this country have deepened.<\/p>\n

Is it Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over as president after the military takeover in November and won Monday’s disputed presidential vote, or hardliners steeped in the brutal practices of the Mugabe era?<\/p>\n

Signals of hope<\/h2>\n

Events since the vote have not inspired much faith.<\/p>\n

Soldiers beat civilians in several opposition strongholds of the capital, Harare.<\/p>\n

Romano Pisciotti: we hope for a better future<\/p>\n

ITALMOTOR AFRICA<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Inauguration of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been halted after a legal challenge by the opposition against the election result.) The deadly violence that followed Zimbabwe’s first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted has created tension in a country that was hoping to put its past behind it, says BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane. The … Continua a leggere Zimbabwe enters a new era, but struggles to escape its past<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,1113],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pisciotti","tag-romano","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}