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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



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  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

Mnangagwa's second coming

The man whose closeness to Mugabe earned him the title of ‘Son of God’ is back at the helm of the ruling party

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

It's go-go with Gono

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono’s first five-year term expires in November 2008. The Movement for Democratic Change insists that his replacement take a more conventional view of a central banker’s duties. Gono has stretched the RBZ’s role in...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 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
  •  22nd August 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 muddlin...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 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
  •  1st August 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
  •  18th July 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
  •  18th July 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
  •  4th July 2008

Deaths and deals

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

  • Vol 49 No 14
  •  4th July 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 bi...

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