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Zimbabwe’s foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo dies of COVID-19

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sibusiso Moyo has died from COVID-19, the Government announced on Wednesday.

Mr. Shoyo died at a hospital in Harare, he was aged 61.

The Minister of foreign affairs gained prominence in 2017 as the military general who announced the coup against then-President Robert Mugabe.

The coup ended Mugabe’s 37-year rule in Zimbabwe. Mugabe died in September 2019.

Sibusiso Moyo was appointed foreign affairs minister after President Emmerson Mnangagwa took power with military backing.

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His spokesman George Charamba, said in a statement that Sibusiso Moyo “succumbed to COVID-19 at a local hospital” on Wednesday.

Zimbabwe is experiencing a resurgence of the disease, with record numbers of daily confirmed cases and deaths.

Mr. Mnangagwa on Thursday is set to bury another Cabinet minister, Ellen Gwaradzimba, who died from COVID-19 last wee

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