Zimbabwe army on high alert

Following deadly clashes that erupted in Harare on Monday between municipal police and vendors, Zimbabwean security forces have been put on high alert.

The informal traders, responding to a violent crackdown on them by municipal police, launched their own counter attacks and threw an assortment of missiles at cops- damaging property in the process and disrupting business within the CBD.

Several unlicensed vandors were still in detention late yesterday following their arrest on Monday, on charges of engaging in public violence.

The Zimbabwe Informal Sector Organisation (Ziso) said yesterday that the action of the authorities was "cruel, inhuman and barbaric".

Ziso director, Promise Mkwananzi, also warned that the country could descend into total chaos if authorities did not mend their ways.