Following Giesecke & Devrient’s withdrawal from supplying bank note paper to Zimbabwe, the German coalition has today forced the Zimbabwean embassy to withdraw from an " All Nations Festival“ (a day when embassies in Berlin open their doors to the public www.allnationsfestival.de)

We learnt of their planned participation in the event yesterday and asked the organisers to cancel Zimbabwe‘s participation. They said this would break diplomatical rules.

Yesterday we decided to hold a protest with people wearing black and handing out black arrm bands to visitors to symbolise the death of democracy in Zimbabwe.

We announced these plans and last night the event organizers received a message from Zimbabwean embassy stating that they were withdrawing from the event as a result of our activities!

We will now hold the rally outside the South African embassy instead and are expecting significant press coverage of the embassy‘s decision.

Best wishes,

Arne Behrensen
Politikanalyse und Kampagnen /
Political Analyst and Campaigner