Zimbabweans want President Robert Mugabe to step down so are holding a rally in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare today to make the point.
In a surprise move on Friday, the controlling Zimbabwean military announced that it would would allow the mass march.
"The ZDF is therefore advising the nation that for as long as the planned march remains orderly, peaceful and in tandem with the fundamental bill of rights and within the confines of the country’s constitution and without hate speech and incitement to cause violence, it fully supports the march," the ZDF said.
More details will be updated as the day progresses...
Thanking the soldiers who led the military "coup"
“These are tears of joy,” Frank Mutsindikwa, 34, told reporters, holding aloft the Zimbabwean flag. “I’ve been waiting all my life for this day. Free at last. We are free at last.”
Freedom Day Zimbabwe in pictures
