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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 10
  •  9th May 2008

Dealing with a wounded tiger

Led by its Legal Affairs Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa, hardliners in the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) cling to power in the face of internal dissent and the government's defeat at the 29 March polls. They insist that...

  • Vol 49 No 10
  •  9th May 2008

Mnangagwa's return to form

Legal Affairs Secretary and former Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has led the charge for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) since he organised the party congress's decision last December to re-select Robert Mugabe as its presi...

  • Vol 49 No 10
  •  9th May 2008

Good COPS, bad COPS

'We will get it done,' Daniel H. Overmyer assured Africa Confidential, leaning in conspiratorially. Overmyer is the President of Castle, Overmyer, Poole & Schubert (COPS), a merchant bank based in Denver, United States. The octogenarian entrepreneur w...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

Can the opposition fight and can it rule?

New questions are raised about the leadership opposition's leadership

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 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
  •  25th April 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
  •  11th April 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
  •  11th April 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. With ...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  •  11th April 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 destitute ...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  •  28th March 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

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