Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Population: 12.5 million
GDP: $3600 million
Debt: $33.5% of GDP
Overview:

The power-sharing regime will rumble on in 2010 as the economy shows signs of recovery but the three main parties struggle to agree on reforms to the electoral and land ownership system and, above all, to the military.

Zimbabwe Country Report



news from Zimbabwe

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  • Vol 51 No 4
  • 19/02/2010

A clash at the border

A confrontation between Harare and Gaborone over a wandering pride of lions has escalated into a serious bilateral rift

  • Vol 51 No 4
  • 19/02/2010

Petrified Politburos

The old ruling party’s new Politburo, announced on 11 February, is anything but new. The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s 49-member policy-making committee, announced by Robert Gabriel Mugabe, national President and First Secretary of ...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  • 05/02/2010

Economic clouds, platinum lining

Foreign mining companies benefit more from the halting recovery as local political problems mount

  • Vol 51 No 3
  • 05/02/2010

The President ends his holiday

As the plotting and squabbles in the ZANU-PF break into the open, the military launches a new round of farm seizures

  • Vol 51 No 1
  • 08/01/2010

Three men in a boat

Somehow the unlikely triumvirate sticks together – for fear of something worse – amid signs of a slowly recovering economy

  • Vol 51 No 1
  • 08/01/2010

Elusive shoots of economic recovery

The key issue for the power-sharing regime is reviving the economy. According to the 2010 budget, the government is aiming for 7% gross domestic product growth, underpinned by 10% in agriculture (as in 2009) and 40% in mining.

  • Vol 50 No 24
  • 04/12/2009

Faint heart never beat stout lady in the ruling party

Joice Mujuru’s victory in ZANU-PF’s leadership election could encourage more pragmatism as pressure mounts for Mugabe’s exit

  • Vol 50 No 24
  • 04/12/2009

Didymus Mutasa dithers

Joice Mujuru's victory in ZANU-PF's leadership election could encourage more pragmatism as pressure mounts for Mugabe's exit

  • Vol 50 No 22
  • 06/11/2009

'Too many enemies'

When arms disappeared from Pomona Barracks, north of Harare, last month, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front barons again blamed the Movement for Democratic Change but military intelligence officers found no evidence. Fearing a mutiny, ...

  • Vol 50 No 21
  • 23/10/2009

Tsvangirai's walkout puts Mugabe on the backfoot

The MDC sees some success in its efforts to push a divided ZANU-PF into talks by appealing to regional leaders to pressure President Mugabe

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