Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Population: 13.1 million
GNI: $4500 million
Debt: $3300 million
Overview:

Efforts by ZANU-PF dissidents under General Solomon Mujuru to form a United Front with Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC might just halt President Robert Mugabe's march towards another election victory in 2008.

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  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

The Nogo and Gono show

As the political talks stutter, the economy continues to implode and the regime is far from having 'total control'

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

Our mutual friend

The control freaks of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front seem astonished that their diktats go unheard by the world's stock exchanges. Yet when it comes to their personal pockets, they show resource and ingenuity. The government's mudd...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Arms and the men

Investigators are probing multimillion pound payments from Britain through secret accounts to a key ally of President Robert Mugabe

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

The real deal

The three negotiating teams are to resume talks in South Africa on 3 August after a break to discuss progress with their respective parties. The original deadline for the installation of a new power-sharing government on 4 August will be missed. However, ...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

ZANU-PF stashes the cash

As they drag out negotiations with the opposition, the ruling party's acolytes are hiding millions of US dollars in offshore accounts

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Britain and the sanctions question

China and Russia's dual veto of a draft sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the United Nations Security Council on 11 July took nostalgic diplomats back to the height of the Cold War. Britain, France and the United States backed the sanctions resolut...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Deaths and deals

The government sets tough terms for a power-sharing deal that might end the crisis

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Where the government gets its money

Foreign mining investors still drop cash into Zimbabwe's empty bucket. Anglo American hit the spotlight in June with its US$400 million Unki platinum project, to be run by its Johannesburg Anglo Platinum subsidiary, in Zimbabwe's Great Dyke, the second...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Can the party hold together?

With an eye to the succession, the top brass of Mugabe's party are squabbling and squirming

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Keep an eye on Mnangagwa

The force behind Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign was former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, along with the military and security chiefs in the Joint Oper...

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