The European Union has announced that it is suspending financial aid to Zimbabwe’s electoral body due to concerns about its practices in the controversial August elections.
Since 2022, the EU has been one of the donors to a project to improve the capacity of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to organize transparent elections.
The project, which is run by the United Nations Development Programme, was to end in December 2024 and the EU had contributed $4.7m some of which had been spent.
However, the union said it will continue monitoring developments in Zimbabwe and could resume support.
