Zimbabwe SMS News

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Radio journalists broadcasting news about Zimbabwe have turned to bulletins via mobile phones in order to beat the censors, the UK-based website Media Helping Media reports. As President Robert Mugabe (83) tightens his grip on power amid an unending economic meltdown, a wave of civil servants’ strikes, ZANU-PF’s internal struggles on the succession saga and the Government’s ban on political rallies and protests, independent media in Zimbabwe is desperately doing whatever it can to disseminate news and information to concerned Zimbabweans, especially to an estimated four million living abroad.