HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday appointed five new ambassadors.
Harold Stuart Comberbach, the 68-year-old former special adviser to foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo, is Zimbabwe’s new permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Comberbach has recently been involved in Zimbabwe’s efforts to get the United States to lift targeted sanctions against top officials, including planning earlier this year a propaganda trip to Washington by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and members of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD). The trip was scuppered by the outbreak of Covid-19.
Former Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana is Zimbabwe’s new ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mnangagwa announced.
Taonga Mushayavanhu, Zimbabwe’s former representative at the UN, is the new representative in Ethiopia, the headquarters of the African Union.
Ammon Mutembwa, who previously served as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the United States is the is moving to Brussels in Belgium, the seat of the European Union.
Charity Angeline Charamba, a former senior assistant commissioner and spokesperson of the Zimbabwe Republic Police is taking over as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Zambia.
