Govt ready to work with like-minded countries amid US aid pause

GOVERNMENT is ready to work with countries and organisations that are willing to work with Zimbabwean authorities while gender programmes will continue despite the United States pulling the plug on its funding, Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.

United States President Donald Trump introduced a raft of measures that saw the cutting of financial aid driving many government interventions including gender mainstreaming.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Development Partners Engagement Meeting in Harare this week, Mutsvangwa said the US was entitled to do what it pleased.

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