Zimbvabwe’s pariah status continues following reports British Prime Minister Boris Johnson consulted Southern African presidents, except President Emmerson Mnangagwa, before the latest travel restrictions were imposed.
The current travel ban on visitors from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi, Eswatini, and Mozambique in entering the UK, was announced after a new highly transmissible Covid-19 variant, Omicron, was discovered last month.
It emerged Wednesday the UK snubbed consulting Mnangagwa’s administration after that country’s shadow Minister of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ruth Jones, asked the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs, whether she had discussions with her counterparts in Southern Africa before the recent restrictions on travel were introduced.
In response to Jones’ inquiry, Vicky Ford, who is Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) said the UK government acted…
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