The U.S. wants donors to cut aid to Zimbabwe to drive President Robert Mugabe out of office, according to a Zimbabwean newspaper. “The United States is rolling out yet another program that seeks to block all avenues of donor assistance to Zimbabwe in a bid to force regime change,” a Sunday Mail report read. “In one of its recent strategic advisory documents to the US government, Havard University’s John F. Kennedy School of government implores donors to withhold assistance to Zimbabwe until “recovery” is possible with new leadership,” the paper added. Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba lambasted Washington’s alleged plan. He said: “It is clear the US have a problem with the liberation ethos as well as its symbol President Robert Mugabe and are thus intent on reversing all that together with the gains of independence. The overall intention is clearly to turn Zimbabwe into a neo-colony.” (Source: Zimbabwean paper accuses US of freezing aid to oust Mugabe/AFP)
