On March 4, the United States (US) government-imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his wife Auxilia, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei along with his wife, Sandra Mpunga, senior government officials, and alleged business partners, for corrup...
A week earlier the EU decried the failure by the Zimbabwean government to improve its human rights record. The economic bloc announced the lifting of sanctions on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Valerio Sibanda and former first lady Grace Mugabe. Chiwenga...
Zimbabwe has been under Western sanctions for the past 20 years over the deteriorating human rights situation. When Mnangagwa took over from the late President Robert Mugabe in a November 2017 coup, he said sanctions could hold back the development of the country, blaming the Mugabe regime, where...
Nichols said despite the targeted sanctions, the US has stood by the people of Zimbabwe and worked together to promote democratic institutions, equitable economic growth, public health, and food security, which has seen the superpower fork out US$3,5 billion to Harare since 1980. The US remains...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s defense minister has described the coronavirus as God’s way of punishing the United States and other western countries for imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe, prompting the president to issue a statement Monday restating his government’s commitment to fighting CO...
Source:US press Zim over media freedom amid calls to lift sanctions | eNCA File: Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2018. ...
The nature, characteristics, and impact of the sanctions point to the sanctions being comprehensive rather than targeted, as their impact is felt more by the innocent Zimbabwean public than by the targeted political individuals. It is argued in this article t...
Moscow of“witchcraft,”and the accused getting no due process or the right to counsel. The former president and PM noted that the US, UK and Europe still had functioning courts that could“correct a mistake of the inquisitorial process”and that Russia intends to contest the sanctions that ...
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China and 30-plus nations currently suffering under US-imposed sanctions, including Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Eritrea and Belarus, have been excluded from the summit. Pakistan, which was invited to the summit, announced...