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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 7
  •  28th March 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 mean t...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  •  28th March 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 sell...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Elections within elections

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

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

A birthday at Beitbridge

Economic hardship and growing divisions in the ruling party give the opposition candidates a better chance in the coming elections

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Constituency carve-ups

Whatever may happen in the presidential poll, the legislative elections are crucial and independent candidates likely to swing behind Simba Makoni are thin on the ground. A total of 105 independents are contesting half of the 210 parliamentary seats, but ...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

In the lion's den

Simba Makoni's decision to challenge President Robert Mugabe has surprised those who suspected he lacked the courage to see it through. The odds could hardly be higher for 58-year-old Makoni: supporters of the status quo will try almost anything, especial...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

The real Makoni stands up

Voters are eagerly waiting to see how many ZANU-PF dissidents back the latest challenge to President Mugabe

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 2008

From Chikurubi to Blackbeach

Simon Mann, former Special Air Service officer and mercenary, was extradited on 1 February from Zimbabwe to Equatorial Guinea, where he is to face charges of coup plotting in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mba...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

Makoni's mouth

Only former Finance Minister Simba Makoni can resolve the issue of whether he is going to challenge President Robert Mugabe for the Presidency in the elections now set for 29 March. So far, Makoni’s mouth has remained publicly shut on the matter.

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

Jumping ship

Time is running out for the ZANU-PF defectors to show their hand and challenge Mugabe ahead of the elections

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