Sokwanele Maps Zimbabwean Violence

Sokwanele is a civic action support group campaigning for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe. Their website includes an ‘election violence map’ that provides detailed information related to localized occurrences of violence related to the election.

Each icon represents a single case of violence; the pin colours identify the perpetrator groups involved in the incident. Over 1,000 cases of political violence and intimidation, carried out after the March 29th elections, are represented on this map.

Tools like Sokwanele and Ushahidi have become increasingly popular as families, workers and officials are forced to turn to them when governments fail to provide such information in the midst of crisis.