President of Zimbabwe

ANKARA. The US imposed sanctions on four Zimbabweans, including the son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. “Today, the US Department of the Treasury's Office ...

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. “Today, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwean entities, and removed seventeen Zimbabweans from the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List),” the department said in a statement on Monday. The US imposed sanctions on four Zimbabweans, including the son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The US has added his son to its sanctions list of people accused of corruption. PHOTO | MOHAMMED ABED | AFP.

Washington said the tightening of the sanctions regime was meant to “encourage” behaviour change on the part of the Zimbabwean government. US sanctions on Zimbabwe freeze any assets of the targeted individuals and companies that may be in the US jurisdictions and bars Americans from doing business with them. President Joe Biden’s administration slapped the corruption sanctions on Emmerson Mnangagwa Jnr on Monday as the US leader prepared to host a major summit of African leaders in Washington this week.

The US on Monday imposed sanctions on the son of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, several other Zimbabweans and two entities as part of Washington's ...

“We urge the Zimbabwean government to take meaningful steps to create a peaceful, prosperous and politically vibrant Zimbabwe, and to address the root causes of many of Zimbabwe’s ills: corrupt elites and their abuse of the country’s institutions for their personal benefit,” the Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Brian Nelson said. Also hit with sanctions were Sandra Mpunga, Nqobile Magwizi, Fossil Agro, Fossil Contracting and Obey Chimuka for their ties to Tagwirei and his company Sakunda Holdings. Washington on Monday said Emmerson Mnangagwa, Jr, the president's son, has been in charge of the president's business interests related to Tagwirei.

It accuses Emmerson Mnangagwa Junior of being linked to the businessman, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who is already under US sanctions for alleged corruption. The ...

The Treasury Department says over the last five years, Mr. It accuses Emmerson Mnangagwa Junior of being linked to the businessman, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who is already under US sanctions for alleged corruption. The US has imposed financial sanctions on four Zimbabweans, including the son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's government has reacted following the addition of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son. on a U.S. sanctions list for corruption ...

What is difficult is to calculate the extent of that impact. Recently, James O'Brien, the U.S. "The intention has always been to cripple the Zimbabwean economy and it's not fortuitous that they have picked on suppliers of key inputs to a critical sector of our economy, namely agriculture. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said it added four Zimbabwean nationals and two Zimbabwean companies to the sanctions list. "Because there is failure to access foreign capital, capital markets, there is failure even to import critical equipment.