{"id":193111,"date":"2025-03-08T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-russia-sign-agreement-to-counter-sanctions-deepen-economic-ties\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:51:07","slug":"zimbabwe-zim-russia-sign-agreement-to-counter-sanctions-deepen-economic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-russia-sign-agreement-to-counter-sanctions-deepen-economic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zim, Russia Sign Agreement to Counter Sanctions, Deepen Economic Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Zimbabwe and Russia have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in response to Western sanctions, further deepening their economic and political ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The agreement was signed in Moscow today during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Professor Amon Murwira.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The pact covers collaboration in key sectors such as geological exploration, mineral resource extraction, energy, agriculture, and defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking at a press&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070087.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>Zimbabwe and Russia have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in response to Western sanctions, further deepening their economic and political ties. The agreement was signed in Moscow today during a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Professor Amon Murwira. The pact covers collaboration in key sectors [&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":[258,256,6423,16876,7683,3576,257,1048,4650,4368,254,7051,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-counter","tag-deepen","tag-economic","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193111","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=193111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193111\/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=193111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}