Zimbabwe accused of attacking Zambia’s sovereignty

Zambia says it will seek intervention from regional bodies to resolve a diplomatic tiff with neighbouring Zimbabwe after an ‘attack’ on its sovereignty. The Sunday Tribune reports that the dispute erupted this month after a video of Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa expressing discomfort over Zambia’s relationship with the US to Russian President Vladimir Putin trended on social media. The leaders held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum where Mnangagwa said the US was ‘consolidating their power’ in Zambia. ‘The government is gravely concerned with its contents, which we consider an unwarranted attack on Zambia’s sovereignty,’ Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mulambo Haimbe told Parliament, referring to the video. The Minister said after checking the video, the government had decided to approach regional bodies for ‘urgent and immediate’ mediation.