{"id":110002,"date":"2021-01-20T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=110002"},"modified":"2021-01-20T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:21:40","slug":"zimbabwean-foreign-minister-sibusiso-moyo-succumbs-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=110002","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo succumbs to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdnuploads.aa.com.tr\/uploads\/Contents\/2021\/01\/20\/thumbs_b_c_d3cb6f97b9fe352274344099f2d723a1.jpg?v=130243\" alt=\"Zimbabwe: Announcer of 2017 coup dies of COVID-19\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>HARARE, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwe&#8217;s foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo died Wednesday, a day after testing positive to COVID-19, acting chief secretary to the president and cabinet George Charamba said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He becomes the third government minister to succumb to COVID-19 since the pandemic hit the country in March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The retired army Lieutenant-General was the face of the military operation that ousted former President Robert Mugabe in November 2019 and went on to be part of current President Emmerson Mnangagwa&#8217;s administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moyo, 61, who suffered from a kidney condition, reportedly died in a medical facility in the capital Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Widely seen as a representative of the military in the Zimbabwean government, he is the third government minister to die of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Agriculture Perrance Shiri, a former air force commander who was given to the portfolio after the coup, also succumbed to the disease in July last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Gwaradzimba, who was the minister of provincial affairs for Manicaland Province, also died last week of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another major figure in the Southern African nation, former deputy minister of finance in the 1980s, Morton Malianga, also succumbed to COVID-19 last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has seen a spike in COVID-19 infections and fatalities since the start of the new year, with the Health Ministry on Tuesday recording 52 deaths and 783 new infections within 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has reported 28,675 COVID-19 cases to date, including 825 deaths. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Zimbabwe&#8217;s foreign affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo died Wednesday, a day after testing positive to COVID-19, acting chief secretary to the president and cabinet George Charamba said in a statement. He becomes the third government minister to succumb to COVID-19 since the pandemic hit the country in March 2020. The retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":110003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}