🇺🇸🇿🇼 US condemns deportation of aid workers from Zimbabwe
The US has accused Zimbabwe of harassing, detaining and deporting several of its nationals who were in the country as aid workers.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said government officials and contractors had been "verbally and physically" intimidated.
They were there to "support civic participation, democratic institutions and human rights", the agency added.
On Monday, the US announced fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials, whom it accuses of corruption and human rights abuses.
USAID's administrator, Samantha Power, said that some of its members had been subjected to "overnight detention, transportation in unsafe conditions, prolonged interrogation, seizure of and intrusion into personal electronic equipment".
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The US has accused Zimbabwe of harassing, detaining and deporting several of its nationals who were in the country as aid workers.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said government officials and contractors had been "verbally and physically" intimidated.
They were there to "support civic participation, democratic institutions and human rights", the agency added.
On Monday, the US announced fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials, whom it accuses of corruption and human rights abuses.
USAID's administrator, Samantha Power, said that some of its members had been subjected to "overnight detention, transportation in unsafe conditions, prolonged interrogation, seizure of and intrusion into personal electronic equipment".
#USA #Zimbabwe
@africaintel