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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 46 No 7
  •  1st April 2005

Waiting for Kiev

Even before polling started on 31 March, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change was preparing to challenge the results. The MDC expected to win in Manicaland, Masvingo and Matebeleland, MDC Secretary General Welshman Ncube told Africa Confidential ...

  • Vol 46 No 6
  •  18th March 2005

Matebeleland moves on

In this month's parliamentary elections, the big upset could come in the south-west as anti-Mugabe sentiment grows

  • Vol 46 No 6
  •  18th March 2005

They also ran

Five parties are contesting the elections, but only the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change have candidates in all 120 seats. The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), formerly led by the late Ndabaning...

  • Vol 46 No 4
  •  18th February 2005

Friends fall out

A former business ally of the Mugabe government accuses it of corruption and hypocrisy

  • Vol 46 No 4
  •  18th February 2005

Spies and counter-spies

South African President Thabo Mbeki's position on Zimbabwe has toughened considerably since the arrest of a South African counterintelligence officer in December 2004 (AC Vol 46 No 2). The officer, whom Pretoria has declined to name, was lured across the...

  • Vol 46 No 2
  •  21st January 2005

Southern spookery

Centre-stage in the latest spy saga is Philip Chiyangwa, the zealous MP for Chinhoyi, Chairman of Mashonaland West's branch of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, and awkwardly, a nephew of President Robert Mugabe. Chiyangwa is on ...

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

A heartbeat away

By suppressing dissent in his party, the President puts at risk its ethnic balance

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

Morgan's method

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change will benefit from the factional rivalries in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has told Africa Confidential. 'The persons that Mugabe has positioned to take over...

  • Vol 45 No 24
  •  3rd December 2004

Bye-bye, Moyo

A purge is coming, in preparation for the 2005 elections and, one day, the departure of President Robert Mugabe. The President's faction of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party has already scuppered the succession hopes of bookies' fa...

  • Vol 45 No 23
  •  19th November 2004

Gunning for Number 2

Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa stakes a claim to the succession

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