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Zimbabwean police arrest 40 peace protestors

Police in Zimbabwe have picked up about 40 women handing out flowers in the capital to protest against violence.The women had gathered outside United Nations offices in central Harare, where they sang an African hymn and handed out red roses with labels that read - Women say no to violence.

They were part of an organisation named Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), which had planned to hold demonstrations in several Zimbabwean cities on Valentine's Day, in what they said was 'a march for love'.

Most of the demonstrators, who included nuns and elderly women, were dressed in white.