{"id":30208,"date":"2022-05-04T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=30208"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:20:47","slug":"mind-your-own-business-zimbabwes-mnangagwa-tells-off-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/mind-your-own-business-zimbabwes-mnangagwa-tells-off-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Your Own Business \u2014 Zimbabwe\u2019s Mnangagwa Tells Off Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told British government to stop meddling on the country&#8217;s affairs, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports quoting the president&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It follows criticism to a proposed law, the Private and Voluntary Organisation Bill, that critics say will give government more control over civil society groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government says the bill will end money laundering and foreign funding of local politics, but campaigners say it will give the authorities powers to interfere with operations of NGOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill will be passed regardless of the criticism, President Mnangagwa is quoted as saying, as he sharply condemned the country&#8217;s former colonial power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They must mind their own business, they cut relations with us (and) we got nothing from them&#8230; we don&#8217;t pay attention to what they are saying,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told British government to stop meddling on the country&#8217;s affairs, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports quoting the president&#8217;s spokesman. It follows criticism to a proposed law, the Private and Voluntary Organisation Bill, that critics say will give government more control over civil society groups. The government says the bill will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":30210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[7447,197],"class_list":["post-30208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-emmerson-mnangagwa","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30211,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions\/30211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}