{"id":3311,"date":"2019-02-07T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:53:54","slug":"end-zimbabwe-sanctions-says-kenyatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/end-zimbabwe-sanctions-says-kenyatta","title":{"rendered":"End Zimbabwe sanctions, says Kenyatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has joined the list of African states calling on Western powers to lift crippling sanctions on the post-Robert Mugabe\u2019s Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday pledged to support the economically-struggling southern African nation\u2019s bid to have the sanctions imposed by the US and the 28-member European Union (EU) lifted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/videoblocks-zimbabwe-flag-backlit-at-beautiful-sunrise-loop-slow-motion-4k_s62yvn9zw_thumbnail-full06-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/videoblocks-zimbabwe-flag-backlit-at-beautiful-sunrise-loop-slow-motion-4k_s62yvn9zw_thumbnail-full06-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/videoblocks-zimbabwe-flag-backlit-at-beautiful-sunrise-loop-slow-motion-4k_s62yvn9zw_thumbnail-full06-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/videoblocks-zimbabwe-flag-backlit-at-beautiful-sunrise-loop-slow-motion-4k_s62yvn9zw_thumbnail-full06-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2018\/12\/videoblocks-zimbabwe-flag-backlit-at-beautiful-sunrise-loop-slow-motion-4k_s62yvn9zw_thumbnail-full06.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cImposing sanction is like tying somebody\u2019s hands and feet, they cannot move. We will give our support to bring back Zimbabwe to the global platform,\u201d said Kenyatta in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The President, the statement said, spoke during a meeting with his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s special envoy Perence Shiri at State House in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa has made scrapping of the sanction a key plank of his diplomatic engagement with the African continent since he romped to power following last year\u2019s acrimonious elections.<\/p>\n<p>The West had imposed the sanctions during the long rule of Mugabe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has joined the list of African states calling on Western powers to lift crippling sanctions on the post-Robert Mugabe\u2019s Zimbabwe. 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