For the original full story- Click here. | Last time when he understated Chinese aid money by more than $136 million, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said it was a calculation mistake, but this time another country, the US has revealed its own cash disbursements were understated.

The US government’s aid was as it were, “notoriously” lowered by a whopping $78 million.

The latest development was revealed by the deputy US ambassador to Zimbabwe.

Ambassador Thomas Hastings, was quoted by the Voice Of America saying

“… they recently released the total amount of money that we gave in 2019, it was about $330 million. So, it was a bit more than it was in the budget report that’s the total amount that includes our work with PEPFAR (U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), it includes work that we have provided this year for food relief, people who are faced with food insecurity because of the drought and other causes it includes drought and any other causes and it also includes the assistance that was given to people who suffered the consequences of Cyclone Idai. So, putting all the numbers together it was over $330 million this year.”

In the budget statement, Ncube indicated that Zimbabwe this year obtained development support from USA amounting to $252,722,653.- READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE ON THE VOA WEBSITE