Groups hold protests on Summit's opening day

As the UN environmental summit got under way today, Zimbabwean and Ethiopian groups held the first in a series of planned protests.

As the UN environmental summit got under way today, Zimbabwean and Ethiopian groups held the first in a series of planned protests.

As scores of riot police looked on, 200 singing and dancing members of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change marched through Johannesburg’s Sandton suburb, calling for new elections and the removal of President Robert Mugabe.

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