Zimbabwe sanctions: Sadc calls on US and EU to drop policy
Monday, August 19, 2019
August 19, 2019
A group of 16 African countries has called on the US and EU to "immediately lift" economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.
The policy was hurting the region, said Tanzania President John Magufuli, who is also the chairman of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc).
The sanctions were imposed in 2002 when Robert Mugabe was president.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa blames them for crippling development in the country.
He says removing them would attract Western investors to Zimbabwe after close to two decades of economic isolation.
Zimbabwe is reeling from high inflation and shortages of basic supplies such as fuel, power and water.
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