Zimbabwe rejects US$367m health deal over sovereignty fears. Lesotho signed Similar Deal.

Zimbabwe has walked away from a proposed US$367 million health funding agreement with the United States, citing concerns over sovereignty, health data control, and biological specimen access. Yet just weeks earlier, Lesotho signed its own US-backed health cooperation deal worth US$364 million. The contrasting decisions are now raising uncomfortable questions in Maseru: what exactly did Lesotho sign, and why did Zimbabwe refuse a similar offer? Zimbabwe stops negotiations over “sensitive data” Zimbabwe’s government terminated negotiations on the five-year agreement after…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...