{"id":942875,"date":"2021-10-30T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=942875"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:44:00","slug":"zimbabwe-flooding-global-climate-summit-with-bloated-entourage-of-100-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zimbabwe-flooding-global-climate-summit-with-bloated-entourage-of-100-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Flooding Global Climate Summit with &#039;Bloated Entourage&#039; of 100 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzimbabwe-flooding-global-climate-summit-with-bloated-entourage-of-100-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=942875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1064323316-e1635625576904-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/mnangagwa-flies-over-100-people-to-scotland-for-cop26\/\">travel<\/a> to Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations (U.N.) Climate Change Conference next week along with a \u201cbloated entourage of over 100 people\u201d of whom \u201cmore than 60 have nothing to do with Climate Change,\u201d <em>New Zimbabwe<\/em> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa\u2019s outsized U.N. delegation will include his \u201cfamily members, friends and Zanu-PF youths who will enjoy a two-week long stay in the UK on taxpayer\u2019s funds [sic],\u201d according to the online newspaper.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zanu-PF, or the Zimbabwe African National Union\u2013Patriotic Front, is a far-left political party that has ruled Zimbabwe since the southern African nation gained independence from Britain in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Farai Maguwu, the director of Zimbabwe\u2019s Center of Natural Resource Governance (CNRG), criticized President Mnangagwa\u2019s decision to treat his official state visit to Scotland next week as a family vacation. The&nbsp;U.N. Climate Change Conference, also known as \u201cCOP26,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/conference\/glasgow-climate-change-conference-october-november-2021\">scheduled<\/a> to take place in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZimbabwe is sending a delegation of more than 100 people to COP26 in Glasgow, some are already there whilst others are packing their bags,\u201d Maguwu wrote in a Twitter statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FMaguwu\/status\/1453051700806307841\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;on October 26.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOf the 100 plus delegates, more than 60 have nothing to do with Climate Change,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the non-technical members who constitute [the] majority of the delegates are relatives and friends of powerful officials responsible for selecting those attending the jamboree,\u201d Maguwu continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome technical staff could not travel to Scotland because spaces had been taken by non-technical climate tourists,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZimbabwe\u2019s delegation is said to be more than double that of South Africa whose population is more than four times bigger than ours whilst their economy is [one] thousand times better and healthier than ours,\u201d Maguwu observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur non-technical delegates on the other hand have found yet another reason to spend what we do not have,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cZimbabwe will be sending a \u2018strong delegation\u2019 to the [COP26] summit,\u201d John Bhasera, a secretary for Zimbabwe\u2019s Lands and Agriculture Ministry, confirmed to reporters on October 26.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming trip to Scotland will mark President Mnangagwa\u2019s first time traveling to the U.K, the leader revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am eagerly looking forward to my first visit to the United Kingdom,\u201d Mnangagwa told Zimbabwean journalists on October 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOP26 meeting of nations comes at an extraordinary time in world history,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa\u2019s trip to the U.K. for the U.N. summit additionally serves as \u201cthe only one by a Zimbabwean state leader in 25 years as a result of a diplomatic tiff that arose during the chaotic land reform programme [of the] early 2000s,\u201d <em>New Zimbabwe<\/em> noted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2020\/07\/31\/zimbabwe-agrees-to-pay-white-farmers-3-5-billion-it-doesnt-have-for-land-grabs\/\">agreed<\/a> in July 2020 to pay $3.5 billion to white farmers displaced by the country\u2019s \u201cland redistribution\u201d campaign since the initiative launched in about 2000. The pledge served as a largely symbolic gesture because Zimbabwe \u2014 a deeply impoverished nation in part due to its decades-long \u201cland redistribution\u201d program \u2014 did not have the promised funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting in 2000, thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers were forced off their land by violent state-backed mobs or evicted in dubious legal judgments, supposedly to help black people marginalized under British colonial rule,\u201d Agence France-Presse (AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/black-and-white-zimbabwe-farmers-try-to-bridge-a-sharp-divide\/\">reported<\/a> in 2018. \u201cThe farms, however, were often allocated to [then] President Robert Mugabe\u2019s allies [with no knowledge of farming] and fell into ruin, leaving tens of thousands of rural laborers out of work and sending the economy into a tailspin as food production crashed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will travel to Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations (U.N.) 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