EU suspends debt aid to Zimbabwe over ‘draconian’ new law

President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa. 

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The European Union (EU) has frozen debt relief aid to Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a controversial law targeting civil society and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Mnangagwa, on Friday, signed the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill into law, ignoring the advice of four United Nations human rights rapporteurs who described it as an assault on democratic principles.