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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 49 No 14
  •  4th July 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
  •  4th July 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 Operat...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  •  4th July 2008

Authoritarian notes

Until Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leant on them, Munich-based security printers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH had a lucrative contract to supply paper for Zimbabwe's considerable demand for new currency notes. In direct competition with Britain's De...

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 2008

The khaki election

The determination of the military to retain power at all costs makes the 27 June election deadly and pointless

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 2008

The praise singing club

In Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media – the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (paradoxically modelled on the British Broadcasting Corporation but periodically purged), the Harare daily The Herald, and the Sunday Mail – a deadline may get you into trouble w...

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 2008

The neighbours start to turn

It began with the refusal of Southern African governments to allow a shipment of Chinese arms to unload at their ports and cross their territory to landlocked Zimbabwe (AC Vol 49 No 9). Since then, regional criticism of President Robert Mugabe’s regime an...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 2008

Fighting democracy – Mugabe's last stand

No matter how President Robert Mugabe does his sums, the odds are against him if there is a credible rerun of the presidential election on 27 June

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 2008

Change in Chikomba

About 150 kilometres south of Harare, Chikomba District has long been the home base of the ruling party’s power elite. These days, however, it shows the same political schisms seen across the country. Firstly, there is the First Lady, Grace Mugabe née Mar...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 2008

Sanctions and standards

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials are concerned whether the Zimbabwe operations of London-based Standard Chartered Bank violate European Union sanctions, according to emails seen by Africa Confidential. Standard Chartered is among th...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  •  6th June 2008

Mawere against Mugabe

One of Zimbabwe’s most strident businessmen, Mutumwa Mawere, is winning his long battle for compensation with President Robert Mugabe’s regime over the ownership of his company Africa Resources Limited (ARL). Until five years ago, Mawere was a staunch gov...

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