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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. 

Zimbabwe Country Report



news from Zimbabwe

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  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Ancestral spirits

The death in a freak car crash of Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, will have both political and religious consequences. Traditional Shona etiquette required that President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace attend the obsequie...

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Caviar and cholera

Mugabe celebrated his 85th birthday as his allies obstructed Morgan Tsvangirai's team in the new government

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Next, the mines

Mining companies, claims and assets offer hope of wealth to the Zimbabwe government's cronies

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Worthless cash

South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is proud of the Southern African Development Community for its brokering in Zimbabwe. At a meeting of SADC finance ministers in Cape Town last week, she called for the lifting of United States' and Eur...

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Now blood gold

Under Zimbabwe's power-sharing government, the mining portfolio (like the army) remains under the control of President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front cronies, all of them subject to asset seizure and travel restricti...

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

A new federation

In Malawi, the President seems to be blundering towards a new version of the Central African Federation

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

A mixture, not a coalition

The new government, with no money and little power, is stronger on hopes than on expectations

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

The MDC line-up

With control of the Prime Minister's office (Morgan Tsvangirai) and Finance Ministry (Tendai Biti), the Movement for Democratic Change has been handed the tough issues of food, jobs and land. If his legal obstacles are cleared, Roy Leslie Bennett, as Depu...

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

The ZANU team

Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man credited with keeping Robert Mugabe in power when he lost the first round of last year's presidential election, is the clear winner in the new dispensation and once again front-runner to succeed Mugabe. He is on the Joint Monit...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Power-sharing for bankrupt beginners

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has negotiated responsibility without power

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