ZIMBABWE has won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) at an election held in New York.

It polled 182 out of 191 votes after an extensive campaign by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

“Zimbabwe has just won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, receiving 182 votes out of 191,” said the Foreign Affairs Ministry on X.

Zimbabwe joins the UNSC’s five permanent members; China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Mnangagwa expects to use the seat as a tool to court the West which still sees his regime as undemocratic and closer to a parish state due to uninhibited corruption, well documented human rights abuses and poor governance.