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Zimbabwe journalists ordered to delete photos of VP collapsing at rally

Zimbabwean Second Vice President Kembo Mohadi at a rally in Mount Darwin on February 2, 2019. [VOA]

Media watchdogs and journalists in Zimbabwe are fuming after members of the vice presidential security detail ordered journalists to delete photos and video of Second Vice President Kembo Mohadi collapsing at a campaign rally Saturday.

As Mohadi was airlifted to an unknown destination for medical attention, the security detail rounded up journalists and ordered them to wipe out recordings of the event.

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