{"id":4713,"date":"2019-08-19T10:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"zimbabwe-sanctions-sadc-calls-on-us-and-eu-to-drop-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/19\/zimbabwe-sanctions-sadc-calls-on-us-and-eu-to-drop-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Sanctions: SADC Calls On US And EU To Drop Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A group of 16 African\ncountries has called on the US and EU to &#8220;immediately lift&#8221; economic\nsanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policy was hurting the region, said Tanzania President John\nMagufuli, who is also the chairman of the Southern African Development\nCommunity (Sadc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sanctions were imposed in 2002 when Robert Mugabe was\npresident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Emmerson Mnangagwa blames them for crippling\ndevelopment in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He says removing them would attract Western investors to\nZimbabwe after close to two decades of economic isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe is reeling from high inflation and shortages of basic\nsupplies such as fuel, power and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-49317593\"><strong>Inflation is currently at a\n10-year high<\/strong><\/a>, shrinking salaries and\npensions, while the price of bread has increased five-fold since April. About\nfive million Zimbabweans are currently in need of food aid, according to the\nUN. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-49386829\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC A group of 16 African countries has called on the US and EU to &#8220;immediately lift&#8221; economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. The policy was hurting the region, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}