*Britain Dishes Out 5 Million GBP
๐ท to Zimbabwe After Meeting
๐ค Mnangagwa*


The United Kingdom has offloaded a
GBP-5million
๐ฐ grant to Zimbabwe
following a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday.

The United Kingdom has offloaded a
-GBP-5million grant to
๐ฟ๐ผZimbabwe
following a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday. The money, as
ZimEye reveals, is however not for government use, but is meant to strengthen
Zim civil societies so to ensure credible and fair 2018
๐ณ elections.


Below was the UK government
๐announcement:

The Minister for Africa, Harriett
Baldwin visited Zimbabwe on Thursday
๐1 February and Friday 2
February, on her first overseas visit in her new role as joint Minister for the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International
Development.

Minister Baldwin met with Zimbabwean
๐President Emmerson
Mnangagwa and Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo to discuss the Zimbabwean
government’ vision for domestic transformation and international engagement
through comprehensive political and economic reforms. As a central plank of
this, they discussed the importance of the elections later this year being
๐peaceful, credible, free
and fair. Minister Baldwin welcomed the President’s commitment to invite
international observers from the EU and UN as well as SADC and AU.

