EU accepts poll observation invite

EUROPEAN Union (EU) vice-president Federica Mogherini has confirmed the West will send a delegation whose mission is to observe Zimbabwe’s upcoming election.

Speaking after a meeting with Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo in Brussels, Mogherini said President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s push for comprehensive political and economic reforms should also result in a conducive legal framework for the people’s freedoms.

Moyo has been on a whirlwind tour of the United States and EU capitals, drumming up support for Mnangagwa’s new administration that swept to power last November on the back of a military intervention that forced then President Robert Mugabe to resign.

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