Biden Hits Zimbabwe With New Sanctions; Experts Say They Won’t Work

Published on March 8, 2024

JOHANNESBURG—President Joe Biden has scrapped a 21-year-old set of sanctions against Zimbabwe and replaced it with new measures targeted more narrowly at key ruling party officials in the crisis-wracked Southern African nation. In 2003, the United States sanctioned 76 Zimbabwean government officials, including then-President Robert Mugabe, accusing them of “undermining democracy” in the impoverished nation for their alleged corruption and human rights violations, which included the murders of political opponents. Incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 81, who was the speaker of the Zimbabwean parliament at the time, was among the officials affected by the measures. Now, Washington is again targeting the former army commander known in Zimbabwe as “The Crocodile,” apparently because he’s so ruthless....

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