{"id":210391,"date":"2025-10-19T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/east-africa-govt-outlines-comesa-strategic-objectives\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:55:03","slug":"east-africa-govt-outlines-comesa-strategic-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/east-africa-govt-outlines-comesa-strategic-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Govt Outlines Comesa Strategic Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Mukudzei Chingwere \u2014 Zimbabwe is poised to take a leadership role as incoming chair of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Professor Amon Murwira outlining the country&#8217;s strategic objectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The role is seen as part of the country&#8217;s broader foreign policy, which emphasises regional integration, peace and economic prosperity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The minister&#8217;s insights shed light on how Zimbabwe intends to leverage its position to benefit not just&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170407.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>Mukudzei Chingwere \u2014 Zimbabwe is poised to take a leadership role as incoming chair of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Professor Amon Murwira outlining the country&#8217;s strategic objectives. The role is seen as part of the country&#8217;s broader foreign policy, which emphasises regional integration, peace [&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":[258,256,13627,6719,4357,257,34603,10728,254,8007,421],"class_list":["post-210391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comesa","tag-east","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-objectives","tag-outlines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210391","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=210391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210391\/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=210391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}