New Delhi, June 22 -- Amidst rapidly rising inflation, Zimbabwean administration of President Emerson Mnangagwa, has hiked civil servants' salaries in local currency by 50% and also awarded them a US$75 COVID-19 allowance starting this month. The announcement came at a time when health workers were staging a peaceful demonstration at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare, expressing their dismay over the recent unannounced salary cuts. Civil servants have rejected, as too little, a 50% government increase on their salaries and they vowed to continue with the plan for a mass demonstration set for June 22. Doctors and nurses in public hospitals have gone on strike with immediate effect denouncing the US$75 COVID-19 allowance and 50% salar...