Striking healthcare workers march to protest over the disappearance of Peter Magombeyi, the leader of their union, outside a hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
HARARE (Reuters) - Striking Zimbabwean doctors said on Wednesday they were being threatened with death and suspected state security agents were pressuring them after police blocked their second protest march over the disappearance of their union leader.
Peter Magombeyi, president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) and one organiser of an ongoing strike to demand higher wages for state doctors because of soaring living costs, disappeared on Saturday night.
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