The British ambassador to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

  is Deborah Bronnert. The British Embassy is based in Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

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Controversy

Ambassador Pocock, along with other foreign diplomats, was seized and threatened by Zimbabwe police briefly on May 13, 2008, while they tried to investigate violence against Zimbabwe’s rural population since the March 2008 elections.

Previous ambassadors

• Dr. Andrew John Pocock CMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
  The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
  
  . February, 2006 - September, 2011
• September 2004 - January 2006 Dr. Roderick Pullen
• 2001 - July 2004 Sir Brian Donnelly
  Brian Donnelly (UK diplomat)
  Sir Joseph Brian Donnelly KCMG, KBE, CMG is a retired United Kingdom diplomat.He attended The Queen's College, Oxford from 1963–66, then received his Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Afterwards, he began an M.Phil at LSE, but left in 1970...
  
   KCMG, KBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , CMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
  The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
  
  
• 1985-1989: Sir Ramsay Melhuish

External links

• Official Embassy web site