Kenya has joined the list of African states calling on Western powers to lift crippling sanctions on the post-Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday pledged to support the economically-struggling southern African nation’s bid to have the sanctions imposed by the US and the 28-member European Union (EU) lifted.
“Imposing sanction is like tying somebody’s hands and feet, they cannot move. We will give our support to bring back Zimbabwe to the global platform,” said Kenyatta in a statement.
The President, the statement said, spoke during a meeting with his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa’s special envoy Perence Shiri at State House in Nairobi.
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’s acrimonious elections.
The West had imposed the sanctions during the long rule of Mugabe.
