US Department of State acting deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs David Gainer argued that Zimbabwe’s economic woes are not because of US sanctions, but because of the “gross mismanagement and corruption” of the Zimbabwean government and other actors for the past 20 years. On Monday, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order that terminated the Zimbabwe sanctions programme, which had been in place since 2003. He determined that the Global Magnitsky sanctions programme – sometimes referred to as GloMag – was a more appropriate tool to address the current concerns in Zimbabwe.