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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87836, member: 27"] A US$367 million health package just died because Zimbabwe's government called it a sovereignty threat, and Washington says that claim is completely baseless. US denies mineral-grab motives behind aid deal [LIST] [*]A senior US official rejected accusations that the collapsed US$367 million health agreement was secretly targeting Zimbabwe's lithium and platinum reserves. [*]Negotiations were strictly about public health, with zero provisions touching critical minerals at any point. [*]Zimbabwean negotiators spent weeks in technical discussions without flagging a single political objection. [*]Washington got blindsided when Harare suddenly pulled the plug with no stated reason. [/LIST] Mnangagwa personally killed the agreement [LIST] [*]President Emmerson Mnangagwa ordered an immediate halt via a letter from Zimbabwe's Secretary for Foreign Affairs dated December 23. [*]His administration branded the memorandum of understanding as lopsided and a threat to national sovereignty. [*]Ambassador Pamela Tremont confirmed the breakdown and warned Zimbabwean communities would absorb the fallout. [*]Winding down existing health assistance is already underway. [/LIST] 1.2 million HIV patients caught in the crossfire [LIST] [*]Roughly 1.2 million Zimbabweans on life-saving HIV treatment through US-backed programs face uncertain futures. [*]Five years of funding would have sustained critical health-data sharing, a standard practice since PEPFAR launched in 2006. [*]Epidemiological data collection that tracks disease trends is part of what got torpedoed. [*]At least 20 other African nations signed similar bilateral health deals without incident. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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