{"id":192081,"date":"2025-02-23T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trade-deals-power-national-prosperity\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:17:21","slug":"zimbabwe-trade-deals-power-national-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trade-deals-power-national-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Trade Deals Power National Prosperity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Professor Amon Murwira, has highlighted the crucial role of trade in driving national prosperity following the meetings held by President Mnangagwa on the sidelines of the recent African Union&#8217;s 38th Ordinary Session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Prof Murwira said Zimbabwe was a signatory to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a pivotal platform aimed at boosting intra-African trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The Minister was speaking at Tuesday&#8217;s post-Cabinet media briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502210550.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Professor Amon Murwira, has highlighted the crucial role of trade in driving national prosperity following the meetings held by President Mnangagwa on the sidelines of the recent African Union&#8217;s 38th Ordinary Session. Prof Murwira said Zimbabwe was a signatory to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7844,6687,257,7047,12870,254,5979,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deals","tag-national","tag-news","tag-power","tag-prosperity","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}