Zimbabwe's embattled independent was back on the streets of Harare Thursday, after four months of legal battles seeking permission to publish.
, Zimbabwe's sole independent daily, once again appeared on the streets of Harare. The truncated, eight-page issue was sold out in minutes.
The government shut down the newspaper last September on the grounds that it did not have a license to publish, as required under the controversial media law. When the paper applied for a license, the government-appointed Media and Information Commission refused one.
took the Commission to court and, after surmounting a series of legal hurdles stacked against it by police and the government, won a decision to resume publishing.
The newspaper's latest legal victory was a decision Wednesday by the High Court ordering police to leave premises and allow it to publish.
, Zimbabwe's largest-circulation paper before it was shut down, had regularly published articles critical of President Robert Mugabe's government.