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Mnangagwa touts tobacco industry progress in bid to get Western sanctions lifted

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa. © Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Emmerson Mnangagwa knows that in order to get Western sanctions lifted he needs to give his country's strategic tobacco sector a facelift. To this end he sent his top lieutenants to sweet talk international NGOs at a special SADC meeting. [...] (285 words)

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