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Zimbabwe: Ignoring the party, Mnangagwa selects his friends and family cabinet

By Farai Shawn Matiashe

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Posted on September 19, 2023 14:14

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife Auxillia in 2017. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stocked the cabinet with friends and relatives, an official change from his first term.

After Mnangagwa was re-elected, he moved from having his wife Auxillia and sons running as de facto top government officials in the previous term to appointing his son and nephew officially as ministers.

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