Briefing journalists after meeting Georg Schmidt, German regional director-general for sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel, Chinamasa said Zimbabwe reiterated its plea for the European giant’s support…

“We appealed to Germany to support the Sadc candidate for the presidency. The message had already been communicated to the Foreign Affairs minister in Germany by their ambassador,” Chinamasa said.

As at January 31 2015, Germany was the third largest non-regional shareholders of AfDB with a total votes of 264 915 behind US (421 316) and Japan (352 694).