Zim-EU mission impossible

The head of the European Union (EU) Southern Africa Division, Claudia Wiedey-Nippold, was in Zimbabwe on Monday where she met Foreign Affairs ministry permanent secretary Joey Bimha ahead of the May 10 Zimbabwe-EU re-engagement dialogue in Brussels.

Wiedey-Nippold made a pledge that the EU would revise its development co-operation with Zimbabwe before August 20 this year, depending on the political and economic reforms obtaining in the country at that time.

The EU and United States imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2002 in protest at violations of human rights by President Robert Mugabe’s government when it was losing power to Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party.

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