{"id":12952,"date":"2019-08-28T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=12952"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:19:12","slug":"us-official-us-increasingly-disappointed-with-zimbabwe-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/us-official-us-increasingly-disappointed-with-zimbabwe-government","title":{"rendered":"US Official: US Increasingly Disappointed with Zimbabwe Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean lawyers carry placards as they march to demand justice for people detained in jail and others facing fast-track trials following recent protests in Harare, Zimbabwe, Jan. 29, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disappointment just keeps getting worse and worse, unfortunately,\u201d said the official, speaking on background to reporters. \u201cThe government seems to be getting even more violent in their response to any form of opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official said Washington had made clear to the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa what it would take to improve relations between Zimbabwe and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials have previously called on Mnangagwa to change Zimbabwe\u2019s laws restricting media freedom and allowing protests.<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa\u2019s government last week banned anti-government protests by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which accuses the authorities of political repression and mismanaging the economy. Police fired tear gas to disperse crowds and barred access to the MDC\u2019s Harare offices.<\/p>\n<p>Anger among the population has mounted over triple-digit inflation, rolling power cuts and shortages of U.S. dollars, fuel and bread.<\/p>\n<p>In March, President Donald Trump extended by one year U.S. sanctions against 100 entities and individuals in Zimbabwe, including Mnangagwa, saying his government had failed to bring about political and economic changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean lawyers carry placards as they march to demand justice for people detained in jail and others facing fast-track trials following recent protests in Harare, Zimbabwe, Jan. 29, 2019. \u201cThe disappointment just keeps getting worse and worse, unfortunately,\u201d said the official, speaking on background to reporters. \u201cThe government seems to be getting even more violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[91,88,31,752],"class_list":{"0":"post-12952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-policy","10":"tag-harare","11":"tag-mdc","12":"tag-mnangagwa","13":"tag-usa"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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