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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 48 No 19
  •  21st September 2007

The banishing of Billy

Influence over the intelligence services has become a crucial front in the African National Congress’s succession battle. The biggest casualty so far has been the former Director of the National Intelligence Agency, Billy Masetlha, who claims he was fired...

  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 2007

He keeps on winning

Mugabe's cunning but ruinous regime is smarter than its quarrelsome critics

  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 2007

Mugabe's people in the provinces

Soldiers and politicians may grumble but President Robert Mugabe and his apparatchiks maintain a wrestler's grip on the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's organisation in all ten provinces. As in 2000 and 2002, Mugabe is backed by the 'war ...

  • Vol 48 No 17
  •  24th August 2007

Neighbours undercover

Zimbabwe's highly effective Central Intelligence Organisation worked to ensure the Lusaka discussions on Zimbabwe went its way. Four days before the 16-17 August Southern African Development Community summit, the CIO circulated what it claimed was a confi...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  •  3rd August 2007

Death of a general

The military is losing out in its power struggle with the intelligence services, and President Mugabe is the beneficiary

  • Vol 48 No 16
  •  3rd August 2007

More blood, more cash

The market principle of ‘'buy when there’s blood on the streets’ has drawn new investors to Zimbabwe

  • Vol 48 No 14
  •  6th July 2007

Good week, bad year

While President Mugabe has been glad-handing his counterparts in Accra, political and security problems proliferate at home

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

Trouble in the neighbourhood

Most countries in the region now want to see President Mugabe's early departure and will start to say so loudly

  • Vol 48 No 7
  •  30th March 2007

How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters

When the reign of President Mugabe and his henchmen comes to an end, Zimbabwe will have much to do to recover from the damage to its economy – and to its people

  • Vol 48 No 6
  •  16th March 2007

Beware the Ides of March

Some of President Robert Mugabe's oldest allies want him to leave – but who will play Brutus?

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