southern African region

Police have arrested 71 people in Zimbabwe’s border town of Beitbridge following angry protests over attempts to restrict imports, the state Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) reported on Saturday. “Security has been beefed up” in the town, which is on the busiest border crossings in the southern African region, ZBC reported in a radio news bulletin. Protesters on Friday set a government warehouse on fire, looted a fast-food outlet, destroyed a house and vandalised traffic lights…