Zimbabwe: known unknowns for sanctions lifting

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa called January 22 for an investigation into violence committed by the country’s security forces on civic demonstrators protesting the country’s very challenging socioeconomic conditions, of which a gasoline price hike was the tipping point. Mnangagwa’s address was his first since canceling his participation at the World Economic Forum and returning home from foreign travel in which he sought to recruit new investment in his southern African country. Withdrawing from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was not surprising, given the frosty welcome the Zimbabwean leader would likely have received given his government’s crackdown on protestors. …

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