THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has intensified the fight for the removal of illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe by launching a multi-pronged international diplomatic offensive. This was said by the bloc’s Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Tax, ahead of October 25, which the regional has set aside annually as the SADC Anti-Sanctions Day. In Zimbabwe, …
Harare – Zimbabwe has begun preparations for activities that will be held on the second day of solidarity with the country against illegal economic sanctions imposed by Western countries nearly two decades ago. SADC leaders adopted October 25 as the Day of Solidarity with Zimbabwe at their Heads of State and Government Summit in Tanzania …
International organisations are adding their weight to the Southern African Development Community’s demand for an end to illegal Western sanctions on Zimbabwe. Sadc, at its recent Summit in Tanzania, declared October 25, 2019 a Solidarity Day Against Sanctions on Zimbabwe. Now, other international organisations – some of them openly hostile to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration …
Zimbabwe scored a major diplomatic victory in its anti-sanctions lobby when Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame recently told the leaders of the world’s economic powerhouse, the Group of Seven (G7) at their France Summit, to end the illegal embargo. The G7 consists of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and Canada. President …
The new Sadc Chairperson, Tanzania’s President Dr John Magufuli, has called on the international community to remove sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, saying the country has “now opened a new chapter and is ready to engage with the rest of the world”. In his acceptance speech after the official ceremonial handover of the chairmanship of the …
Zimbabwe will leverage on its natural resources and will not be deterred by Western economic sanctions that have caused untold suffering of ordinary people, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. President Mnangagwa said this after the signing of an investment agreement on Southern Serui Platinum Concessions between Government and the Bravura Consortium for aero-magnetic exploration of …
Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans Affairs Cde Douglas Mahiya says the United Nations should play an integral part in influencing the removal of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe. In an interview in Harare yesterday, Cde Mahiya said “There is need for the UN to be a player in calling for the removal of sanctions in Zimbabwe, …
SANCTIONS imposed on Zimbabwe are illegal and unjust, and should be removed as they cause underdevelopment and suffering of innocent people. Addressing delegates at the commissioning of a US$10 million brick and tile manufacturing plant at Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company (SZCC) on the outskirts of Gweru yesterday, China’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Guo Shaochun said …
The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe are outdated and should be removed as they benefit neither Zimbabwe nor the United States, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo has said. He said this on Wednesday when he had lunch with the Westminster Africa Business Group in London, United Kingdom. Dr Moyo said the …
Following the adoption of October 25 as the Sadc Day of Solidarity Against Sanctions on Zimbabwe, the chair of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Cde Kindness Paradza (Zanu-PF) called on Zimbabweans and the world to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s socio-economic reform agenda. Here are excerpts of that interview. *** Q: …
