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Zimbabwe
Population: 12.6 mn.
GDP: 7.5 bn.
Debt: 6.2 bn.
Overview:

President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai want an election this year, but another violent debacle looms in the absence of a constitutional solution. Farm and mining output, particularly platinum and diamonds, will improve. 

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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Positions pending

After his annual holiday in south-east Asia, Mugabe has to decide whether to reappoint many of his ageing securocrats

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Mugabe breaks with the region

By snubbing the African National Congress centenary celebrations and their host, South African President Jacob Zuma, President Robert Mugabe wanted to make some political points. He is furious at South Africa’s continued pressure on him over power-sharing...

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

A race against time

The probability of President Mugabe scuppering constitutional reforms and calling a snap election is firming up

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

A pause in economic progress

The early economic successes of the power-sharing government are sputtering (AC Vol 52 No 25). A decade after the land reform battles, agriculture will be the main source of growth this year. This is from an alarmingly low base: the Commercial Farmers’ Un...

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Pachyderms in the parlour

The threat to the economy from the indigenisation policy is becoming a big issue but for Mugabe’s party it’s non-negotiable

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

ZANU's honey trap

The Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front’s tacticians once more showed their talent for wrong-footing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai when he decided to cancel his wedding to a Harare commodity broker on 1 December. Tsvangirai said he had beco...

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Polls, leaks and expropriations

The coalition parties have agreed on holding elections next year and campaigning is already in full swing

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Cyber attack

Even Harare’s shell-shocked business community was rocked by the arrest, charging and weekend incarceration of Farai Rwodzi, nascent billionaire and one of its youngest and brightest stars, on 27 October (AC Vol 51 No 22, Sanctions fraying fast). Rwodzi a...

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Devil take the hindermost

After Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams met President Robert Mugabe on 10 October in Harare, he told journalists Mugabe had appeared shocked by the dossier of property seizures, violence and closure of churches, schools, mission hospitals and orphan...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

US sources run for cover

The unredacted WikiLeaks release of US cables from Harare exposes senior politicians and soldiers to witch-hunts

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