New: US Sanctions Slapped on Mugabe
5 March 2015
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President Robert Mugabe has been slapped with a round of US sanctions set to keep him isolated despite being elected African Union chairoperson.
The United States of America has announced it is from tomorrow renewing sanctions on Mugabe for another year.
In extending the restrictive measures, Washington said that President Mugabe was a threat to US foreign policy,  a development that has irked both the President’s office and ZANU PF diplomats.
In a notice titled “Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Zimbabwe” published by the White House on March 03, US president Barrack Obama, said that the actions of the Government of Zimbabwe “contributed to deliberate breakdown of political and economic instability in the southern African region’’.
“The actions and policies of these persons continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States,” said Mr Obama. “For this reason, the national emergency declared on March 6, 2003, and the measures adopted on that date, on November 22, 2005, and on July 25, 2008, to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond March 6, 2015.
“Therefore in accordance with section 202 (d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288.”
Meanwhile the Dean of African Diplomats Mawampanga Mwanananga, quoted by the State Media reacted saying that Africa should not dignify retrogressive moves by reading much in such statements from Washington.
“The reality is that those statements do not make sense,” he said. “It is their problem and do not read much into them. I call them meaningless and senseless.”
Ambassador Mwanananga said the Americans had pushed themselves into a corner by imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe and they were now finding it difficult to rectify that. He said there was a clique of former Rhodies that continued to lobby the US Congress to continue the sanctions regime on Zimbabwe.
Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Elio Savon Oliva, also quoted by the State Broadsheet, spoke out against the US hard line stance on Zimbabwe saying the world over sanctions had proven to be a wrong tool of resolving differences.
He challenged the US government to explain why it considered President Mugabe and Zimbabwe threats to US foreign policy and the world at large.
“Why is he (President Mugabe) a threat? I will rather agree with 54 African countries that elected President Mugabe as African Union chairman. If he is a threat, he could not have been elected to lead the continent. “I had received so many messages about President Mugabe made by African leaders and I would rather believe them than statements made by people far away afield from Africa,” he said.

6 Replies to “New: US Sanctions Slapped on Mugabe”

  1. This Head Line is nonsense….sanctions are slapped on Zimbabweans not on Cde Robert Mugabe alone…a stupid HEADLINE….Zimbabweans are suffering from these illegal sanctions…all the Western sponsored Media house are happy and writing to the world it as a good thing………..

  2. This Head Line is nonsense….sanctions are slapped on Zimbabweans not on Cde Robert Mugabe alone…a stupid HEADLINE….Zimbabweans are suffering from these illegal sanctions…all the Western sponsored Media house are happy and writing to the world it as a good thing………..

  3. Mugabe knew of the sanctions when he drew up his ZimAsset economic recovery plan so it is a pretty feeble excuse to blame the sanctions for his failure to revive the economy. If he is saying it is impossible to revive the economy whilst the sanctions are still in place then the nation has the right to demand a new government that will either get the sanctions lifted or can produce a plan that will work even with the sanctions still in place.
    Either way Mugabe must step down and seek a fresh mandate!
    If Mugabe ‘s nonsense that it is the sanctions that has and continue to cause Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown then the EU might just as well have maintained the sanctions because nothing has changed economically since the relationship between EU – Zimbabwe thawed 2 years ago. The EU stubbornly refused to bankroll Mugabe’s ZimAsset.
    There have been countless high powered EU delegation visit to Zimbabwe but none of the visits have so far resulted in any EU country investing a dollar or giving a dollar in budgetary support the regime needs desperately.
    Indeed the Chinese too must have since last August imposed sanctions on Mugabe because they too have refused to give Mugabe a dollar in budgetary support.
    Mugabe’s ZimAsset economic recovery plan in dead in the water and the economic meltdown is getting worse by the day; unemployment has soared to 90%, the regime is now talking of cutting civil servant wages, etc. How long does Mugabe think this is going to last? Sooner or later Mugabe will have to step down or he will be forced out of office because this cannot go on like this for much longer!

  4. Mugabe knew of the sanctions when he drew up his ZimAsset economic recovery plan so it is a pretty feeble excuse to blame the sanctions for his failure to revive the economy. If he is saying it is impossible to revive the economy whilst the sanctions are still in place then the nation has the right to demand a new government that will either get the sanctions lifted or can produce a plan that will work even with the sanctions still in place.
    Either way Mugabe must step down and seek a fresh mandate!
    If Mugabe ‘s nonsense that it is the sanctions that has and continue to cause Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown then the EU might just as well have maintained the sanctions because nothing has changed economically since the relationship between EU – Zimbabwe thawed 2 years ago. The EU stubbornly refused to bankroll Mugabe’s ZimAsset.
    There have been countless high powered EU delegation visit to Zimbabwe but none of the visits have so far resulted in any EU country investing a dollar or giving a dollar in budgetary support the regime needs desperately.
    Indeed the Chinese too must have since last August imposed sanctions on Mugabe because they too have refused to give Mugabe a dollar in budgetary support.
    Mugabe’s ZimAsset economic recovery plan in dead in the water and the economic meltdown is getting worse by the day; unemployment has soared to 90%, the regime is now talking of cutting civil servant wages, etc. How long does Mugabe think this is going to last? Sooner or later Mugabe will have to step down or he will be forced out of office because this cannot go on like this for much longer!

  5. These pale-skinned folks are double-faced!!….they say one thing during the day and the reverse at night. Trusting such fork-tongued people is only done at “owner’s risk”. This is why we should be very much wary when these shameless hypocrites tell us that bi-lateral relations are thawing!!…in spite of positive sound-bytes the EU renewed sanctions on Gushaz; and now the USA is following suit

  6. These pale-skinned folks are double-faced!!….they say one thing during the day and the reverse at night. Trusting such fork-tongued people is only done at “owner’s risk”. This is why we should be very much wary when these shameless hypocrites tell us that bi-lateral relations are thawing!!…in spite of positive sound-bytes the EU renewed sanctions on Gushaz; and now the USA is following suit

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