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who has been in Zimbabwe on a four day State visit left this afternoon for his home country.
He was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru and other senior Government officials.
Before his departure, Sheikh Saud signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vice President Joice Mujuru covering six areas of cooperation.
The areas are agriculture, mining, energy, tourism, health and
Industry and Commerce.
He was seen off at the airport by VP Mujuru, Defence Minister Emmerson
Mnangagwa, Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu,Transport, Communication and Infrastructure Development Minister Nicholas Goche, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made and Service Chiefs.
Meanwhile, Ras Al Khaimah ruler Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi has expressed interest in pursuing various business opportunities here.He is in Zimbabwe on a four-day State visit. The Sheikh yesterday visited theNational Heroes’ Acre, Alfa Omega Dairy Farm in Mazowe and Boka Tobacco Auction Floors.
He was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and his Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development counterpart Joseph Made.
Sheikh Saud said there were plenty business opportunities in Zimbabwe which his country was considering to pursue.
He praised the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe’s work at her children’s home.
“I am very impressed by what I saw. I saw the care she is giving to the little children she has adopted. I saw they are always smiling,” he said.
Sheikh Saud said Alpha Omega Dairy was a world class dairy. He said Zimbabwe had potential to do better.
The First Lady said she intended to build a hospital at the children’s home should resources permit.
“I do not like to call this children’s home an orphanage. The intention is to bring children who are disadvantaged and those who have been abandoned by their mothers to have a place to call home. Funds permitting, we want to have a hospital.”
Amai Mugabe said in the long run, she wanted to build a university in Mazowe as part of the project.
She said it was a challenge to develop the project as it relied mostly on donations.
“We have a primary school here and it is not only for our children here. We will also accommodate children from outside, but they will have to pay. This will enable us to run and sustain our operations, including provision of food, clothing and paying teachers.
“We plan to have a university in the same area. The governor has given us some more land for our project,” she said.
Amai Mugabe said human beings were equal and it was bad to ill-treat orphans. At Boka Tobacco Auction Floors, Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board chairperson Mrs Monica Chinamasa said Zimbabwe had great potential, especially in the agricultural sector.
She, however, said efforts to develop the sector were being impeded by illegal sanctions imposed by the West.
“We can do much more in the this sector but our country is under sanctions,” said Mrs Chinamasa.
She said Zimbabwe fought the liberation struggle to reclaim its land from British colonialists.
Online Reporter