#COVID19 Balozi wa Zimbabwe nchini Msumbiji afariki kwa Covid-19

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09 February 2021
Harare, Zimbabwe

Balozi wa Zimbabwe nchini Mozambique apoteza uhai kwa Covid-19


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Kamanda mwingine aliyeshiriki kumungoa Robert Mugabe afariki kwa matatizo ya kupumua yaliyoletwa na ugonjwa wa Covid-19 akiwa likizoni mjini Harare.

Meja-Jenerali mstaafu Douglas Nyikayaramba amekuwa jenerali wa 4 katika genge la maofisa wa jeshi wa juu waandamizi wa jeshi la Zimbabwe walioshiriki ktk njama za kumuondoa Rais Robert Mugabe mwaka 2017 kupoteza uhai kwa gonjwa la Covid-19.

Msemaji wa Ofisi ya Rais wa Zimbabwe, George Charamba ametoa habari hiyo ya huzuni kupitia ktk mtandao wa twitter na kusema " Nimestushwa kupata taarifa ya kufariki kwa Major General mstaafu Nyikayaramba, balozi wetu nchini Mozambique. Tumempoteza kwa Covid-19 . Kwa mara nyingine tunampoteza mwanadiplomasia, kamanda, veterani wa vita na mzalendo" mwisho wa kumnukuu msemaji wa Ikulu.

Wanajeshi maofisa wa jeshi waandamizi wengine waliokuwamo ktk genge lililomuondoa Robert Mugabe kisha waliopoteza uhai kwa gonjwa hili jipya ni pamoja na waziri wa mambo ya nje Sibusiso Moyo, waziri wa kilimo Perrance Shiri na mkuu wa magereza Paradzai Zimondi.

Kama ilivyokuwa kwa Moyo na Shiri, Nyikayaramba alistaafu kutoka utumishi jeshini na kupewa nyadhifa za kiuraia serikalini kama hisani baada ya kufanikisha Rais Emmerson Mnangagwa kuingia madarakani.

Wengine waliopewa nafasi serikali baada ya kufanikisha mapinduzi ni makamu wa Rais Jenerali mstaafu Constatino Chiwenga, Brig-General Anselm Sanyatwe kinara wa mapinduzi ya kutoa Robert Mugabe, sasa ni balozi wa Zimbabwe nchini Tanzania.

Zimbabwe’s foreign minister dies from Covid-19.​

Zimbabwe’s foreign affairs minister and retired military Maj-Gen Sibusiso Moyo is the country's third government minister to succumb to Covid-19.

Zimbabwe’s foreign affairs minister and retired military Maj-Gen Sibusiso Moyo is the country's third government minister

February 9, 2021
Harare, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Mozambique succumbs to Covid-19​

Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Mozambique, retired Maj-Gen Douglas Nyikayaramba, has died of Covid-19 complications.

Nyikayaramba, 64, was on leave when he died in Harare, becoming the fourth military general to lead the 2017 putsch against the late Robert Mugabe to succumb to the virus.

Presidency spokesperson George Charamba announced on Twitter: “I’m gutted to learn of the demise of Major General (Rtd) Nyikayaramba, our ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique. We have lost him to Covid-19. Yet another diplomat, commander, war veteran and patriot falls!”


Other military coup conspirators to die during the pandemic are foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, agriculture minister Perrance Shiri and former prisons boss Paradzai Zimondi.

Like Moyo and Shiri, Nyikayaramba retired from active military service to take up civilian roles in the government as part of the spoils of the role played by the military in helping President Emmerson Mnangagwa into office.
Source : Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Mozambique succumbs to Covid-19
 
28 January 2021
Harare, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe buries top officials who died of COVID-19



Zimbabwe on Wednesday buried three top officials, including two cabinet ministers, in a single ceremony at a shrine reserved almost exclusively for the ruling elite as a virulent wave of the coronavirus takes a devastating toll on the country.

"COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson that we are all mortal," said Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, presiding over the burial at the hilltop, picturesque shrine called National Heroes Acre. "It does not discriminate between the powerful and the weak, the privileged and the deprived, the haves and the have-nots. It is a ruthless juggernaut that leaves a trail of despair and desperation,"he added.

Pallbearers in full COVID-19 protective gear wheeled the coffins of the two cabinet ministers and a former head of Zimbabwe's prisons on a red carpet for burial with military honors. A few mourners, keeping a distance from each other and wearing face masks, attended the burial in line with regulations that limit the number of people at funerals.

One of the ministers buried, Sibusiso Moyo, was the country's foreign affairs minister, but was best known as the military general who announced the coup against then-president Robert Mugabe on television in 2017. The coup ended Mugabe's 37-year rule and he later died in September 2019.

Zimbabwe has now lost four cabinet ministers to COVID-19. President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the coronavirus is reaping a "grim harvest" in the country while presiding last week at the burial of one of the ministers who died from COVID-19 at the same shrine. Mnangagwa did not attend the triple burial Wednesday as he is taking annual leave.

Several other prominent political and business leaders have died from the virus in recent weeks, leaving the country scratching for answers. It appears that many of Zimbabwe's elite did not take adequate precautions during the holiday season.

A government spokesman, Nick Mangwana, was this week forced to apologize after appearing to suggest some of the high profile people were being "eliminated" in hospitals by doctors he called "medical assassins" and "political activists hiding behind medical qualifications."

Zimbabwe, like many other African countries, initially recorded low numbers of COVID-19 but has recently experienced a spike in cases. There are fears that a new, more infectious variant of the virus came to the country when scores of thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa returned home for the holiday season.

The country of 15 million recorded a total of 32,004 cases, including 1,103 deaths, on Jan.26, up from the slightly more than 10,000 cases and 277 deaths at the beginning of December, according to government figures. Zimbabwe has not yet received any vaccines. Mnangagwa has said the government health officials are still deciding which vaccine to acquire.

The government has also said it expects to get some vaccines through the international COVAX initiative, but it does not have a firm date on when they will be delivered.
Source : AP Associated Press
 
February 17, 2021
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Zanzibar's Vice President Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad dies after battling COVID-19




The vice-president died today in Muhimbili National Hospital while undergoing treatment since the 9th of February 2021.
 
February 11, 2021
Kampala, Uganda

Foreign news, no plans to produce COVID-19 vaccine in Tanzania


source : Urban TV Uganda
 
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