Chiefs, EU to meet

to engage the bloc to lift sanctions imposed on the country.

Chiefs’ council president, chief Fortune Charumbira, on Tuesday said the meetings start in Harare tomorrow. Chief Charumbira said the chiefs’ council would first engage the British embassy and other EU embassies later. “The Zimbabwe chiefs’ council has already lined up a series of meetings with various EU embassies in Harare as part of the first phase of the engagement with EU governments and royal families to help them see light on what sanctions have done to Zimbabwe.

They are not justified and are causing a lot of suffering to the ordinary man in the street. “We will start by engaging the British embassy because the whole issue of sanctions started after a row between Harare and London,” he said. Chief Charumbira said the chiefs’ council had decided to join Zimbabweans in the fight against sanctions because the most affected people were from their communities. – HR.