Zimbabwe’s health minister faces corruption charge over illegal contract for coronavirus medical supplies

Zimbabwe’s health minister on Saturday was charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer, accused of illegally awarding a multimillion-dollar contract for Covid-19 medical supplies to a shadowy company that sold the government US$28 face masks and other materials at inflated prices.The country’s anti-corruption agency arrested Obadiah Moyo on Friday and the government cancelled the contracts following public uproar.One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sons was forced to issue a…

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