Qatar Airways plans to introduce flights to Harare three times a week, said Qatar's new ambassador to Zimbabwe, Salem Al-Jaber on Thursday.

Al-Jaber told journalists, after presenting his credentials to President Robert Mugabe, that the move was part of Qatar's business ventures in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe's New Ziana news agency reports.

"We have 10 flights a week to Johannesburg and we would like to extend our service from Johannesburg to Harare, at least three times a week in the initial stage and have direct flights in future," he said.??

Qatar Airways joins a host of other airlines that have introduced or resumed flights to Zimbabwe, including Air Namibia, KLM and Mozambique's LAM.?Other airlines that have shown renewed interest to fly into Zimbabwe are Air France, Swiss Air, Bulgarian Airlines and Lufthansa.

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