The move by President Donald Trump is a setback for efforts by President Cyril Ramaphosa and the regional grouping SADC to lift the punitive measures they say are hamstringing Zimbabwe’s economic recovery.

Washington says Zimbabwe continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. foreign policy.

So the sanctions imposed 15 years ago on more than 100 individuals and instances for human rights abuses are extended for another year.

Ridiculous, counters President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is among those personally targeted by the sanctions.

Zimbabwe has no history of aggression.

He had expected his re-engagement with the West and other warm gestures from Harare, to be reciprocated.

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