Zimbabwe calls for unconditional removal of Western sanctions

Zimbabweans on Saturday marked Anti-Sanctions Day in Harare, the country’s capital, calling for the unconditional removal of Western sanctions imposed on the country over two decades ago.

The SADC Anti-Sanctions Day, commemorated on Oct. 25, was established by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 16-member regional organization, in 2019 as a collective regional initiative to denounce the sanctions, which were imposed on Zimbabwe following the country’s land reform program that redistributed land from minority white farmers to indigenous black Zimbabweans.

In his keynote address at the event, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for the complete and unconditional removal of the sanctions, saying that the country remains resolute in developing in the face of the illegal sanctions.

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