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 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Can the opposition fight and can it rule?

New questions are raised about the leadership opposition's leadership

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

The opposition line-up

The division of the opposition into three rival components hampers its response to the government’s crackdown and its ability to mobilise against electoral fraud. Activists believe the Central Intelligence Organisation is working to exacerbate the divisio...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Oceanic turnaround

The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition, mortars, mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government – marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s regional relations. It also shows how trades union...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

The ugly endgame

President Mugabe has been wounded by his party's parliamentary defeat but his loyalists plan a final orgy of repression

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Tsvangirai's transient victory

The parliamentary victory of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change - winning 99 seats in the House of Assembly to 97 for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front - seemed for a moment to change Zimbabwe's political landscape. W...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

The hyperinflation club

On the fringes of an opposition rally just before the election stood a solitary figure holding a placard, his jacket pasted with Z$10 million bearer cheques. With the gallows humour now popular in Zimbabwe, the placard read 'Please help! I am a destitu...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

The sick man of the south

President Mugabe's disastrous stewardship is dragging the region's economy downwards but the leaders are divided on the remedy

  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

Harare eyes the Kenyan model

When Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as 'a dinosaur' last year, his party received an angry phonecall from Futungo de Belas in Luanda warning that gratuitous insults against Comrade Mugabe would me...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

Marking ballots, selling shares

Companies are watching the elections with a particular focus - the implementation of the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act. Announced by President Robert Mugabe on 7 March, the Act compels all foreign-owned companies (and many locally-owned ones) to ...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

Elections within elections

The presidential contest attracts most attention but the battle for Parliament may decide the outcome

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