regime change

There is very little to show for the huge amounts of money invested in local pro-democracy groups over the years, a western envoy has lamented, adding that the non-governmental organisation sector has become as corrupt as the regime whose ouster it sought.

A diplomat who heads one of the western donor organisations in the country says that, “You can see that there (has been) no, or very little, change in the democracy situation in the country despite the civil society having been well resourced financially.”

The United States, through its US Agency for International Development (USAID), donated close to a billion dollars into the non-governmental organisation sector (NGO) sector in pursuit of illegal regime change in the final stages of the ill-fated inclusive government.
 
The revelations come as Western donors announced they were stopping availing money to anti-government NGOs in Zimbabwe after they failed to account for over US$850 million extended by USAID as part of the illegal regime change agenda between 2011 and 2014.