Chinese leader Xi Jinping coming to Zimbabwe

Chinese President Xi Jinping could visit Zimbabwe before year end as the two countries continue high-level engagements which the southern African country hopes will lead to the signing and implementation of investment deals to revive the battered economy, it emerged.

Government sources said this week Jinping would be coming as per the tradition of Chinese leaders who visit countries whose heads of state and government would have earlier been invited to China, as was the case last year with President Robert Mugabe.

However, Joey Bimha, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, professed ignorance on the issue telling this paper that he was not aware of the development.