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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



news from Zimbabwe

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  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

Accounting problems

Investigations into the relations between Zimbabwean ministers and Britain’s Barclays Bank may reopen following the admission by several ruling party politicians that they operate accounts with the bank in contravention of European Union sanctions.

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

Mnangagwa momentum

Alongside the main business of endorsing President Robert Mugabe as its flagbearer in next year's elections, the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Congress is this weekend expected to choose between sucession rivals Solomon Mujuru and...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Mbeki to the rescue

Restarting talks between Mugabe's government and part of the opposition may not be a triumph for quiet diplomacy

  • Vol 48 No 23
  •  16th November 2007

This time I'm going. No, really

President Mugabe has assured some of his henchmen that he will go next year, but don’t hold your breath

  • Vol 48 No 23
  •  16th November 2007

Sanctions sense

Western sanctions on Zimbabwe appear to be unravelling ahead of the European Union/African Union summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December. The Harare delegation is to push for the EU to end all financial restrictions on President Robert Mugabe's government.

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

His friend Bob

President Mutharika seems to be buddying up to Zimbabwe's failing boss, which looks a bad move

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

Fund furore and banking bailout

Against the advice of their own senior staff, the Boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are blocking the restoration of voting rights to Zimbabwe, apparently at the prompting of the British and United States’ directors. The Ha...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

Brown's boycott

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s refusal to attend the European Union summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-9 December alongside Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe plays well with Britain’s conservative newspapers.

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

Scrum half

Relations between Britain and South Africa, not helped by the Springboks’ 15-6 defeat of England in the Rugby World Cup in Paris on 20 October, have become poisonous again over Zimbabwe.

  • Vol 48 No 19
  •  21st September 2007

Signs of movement

After a surprising political deal, reformers hope that at last the opposition’s talks with government are leading somewhere

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