{"id":10463,"date":"2020-07-29T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=10463"},"modified":"2020-07-29T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T07:27:45","slug":"us-summons-zimbabwe-ambassador-to-explain-thug-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/29\/us-summons-zimbabwe-ambassador-to-explain-thug-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"US summons Zimbabwe ambassador to explain ‘thug’ slur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US government has summoned Zimbabwe’s ambassador to explain comments made about its envoy by the country’s ruling party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, Zanu-PF, had on Monday accused the US of sponsoring anti-government protests in the country and called the US ambassador Brian Nichols a “thug”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Assistant Secretary for the State Department\u2019s Bureau of African Affairs Tibor Nagy termed the comments as “deeply offensive”, adding that the Zimbabwe envoy had been summoned to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch tweeted<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

that Zimbabwe was using “name calling, deflection and misinformation to justify their current economic and political crisis”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambassador Nichols has had several run-ins with the Zimbabwean government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zimbabwe’s foreign affairs minister in November 2019 threatened to expel the ambassador accusing him of “behaving and conducting himself like an opposition member”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country has been protesting against US sanctions and the embassy has been on the receiving end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US government has summoned Zimbabwe’s ambassador to explain comments made about its envoy by the country’s ruling party. A spokesperson of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, Zanu-PF, had on Monday accused the US of sponsoring anti-government protests in the country and called the US ambassador Brian Nichols a “thug”. The Assistant Secretary for the State Department\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The-US-Ambassador-Brian-Nichols-has-had-several-run-ins-with-the-Zimbabwean-governmentI.jpg?fit=624%2C351&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}