India, Feb. 27 -- Zimbabwe has rejected a multi-million health funding deal offered by the United States of America - until now the southern African country's main health and humanitarian aid donor - on account of what Harare has alleged to be the lop-sidedness of the deal.

Harare says negotiations over the $367 million health funding package wallowed on account of Washington's insistence on having unfettered access to sensitive health data as well its demand for access to the African country's strategic minerals.

The decision has come to light after a government memo from last December got public, in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa decided to turn down the offer on the grounds that it was "lop-sided".

Zimbabwe government spokespers...