Zimbabwe: Drop Biti Charges, U.S. Tells Mnangagwa Government

7 December 2018

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government should drop charges against former finance minister and opposition leader Tendai Biti to prove that the Harare administration is "serious about taking the country in a new, more positive direction".

This was said by the United States' Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Matthew Harrington Thursday in a statement to the Senate Committee on foreign relations.

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