ISDS Case Map
Zimbabwe
Regional trade integration bodies must stand together and prevent outside forces like the European Union (EU) from promoting divisions to suit their varied agendas, especially when dealing with African member states, a Government minister has urged.
South Africa is set to push once more for the signing of an investment protection agreement with Zimbabwe as President Robert Mugabe starts implementing threats to abolish private ownership of land.
About 1 500 commercial farmers who have had their land forcibly and sometimes violently seized by Robert Mugabe's government have taken their case to international arbitration.
It seems neighbours Malawi and Zimbabwe are kissing and making up after a couple of years of strained trade relations.
Zimbabwe has decided to negotiate its Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union under a new trading bloc known as the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) group.
