Africa Enters New Era of Cooperation

President Mnangagwa is welcomed by Vice Presidents Dr Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi on his arrival from Egypt at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare last night. — Picture: Believe Nyakudjara

Fungi Kwaramba in CAIRO, Egypt

AFRICA has reached a stage of inter-continental cooperation for its development and its member states must collaborate closely in key sectors of agriculture and technology to lift the continent’s citizens to prosperity, President Mnangagwa has said. Yesterday the President, who arrived home last night from Cairo, held bilateral talks with his Egyptian counterpart President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and stressed the importance of extending the excellent political relations between the two countries, which date back to the liberation struggle, to the economic front. President Mnangagwa was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Fredrick Shava, Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Dr Anxious Masuka and Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube when he held the bilateral engagement with President El-Sisi. In an interview, the President said Zimbabwe and Egypt will strengthen cooperation, riding on the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, particularly in areas where both countries have expertise. “Myself with the ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance and President El-Sisi and his three ministers, including his Minister of Foreign Affairs, we had a broad and comprehensive discussion about our relations, the historical relations between our two countries. ReadMore