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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 52 No 13
  •  24th June 2011

Reports of Mugabe’s demise

Opposition politicians insist that President Robert Mugabe will retire before the end of 2011, which may be one reason why they want to delay the polls. The 87-year-old Mugabe had looked frail at the regional Troika meeting in Zambia on 31 March but obser...

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Attacks cause new crisis

With SADC leaders set to condemn the latest round of political attacks, the prospect of credible elections recedes into the distance again

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Old man out

The ruling party looks for a new leader, while the opposition wants fair elections

  • Vol 52 No 7
  •  1st April 2011

Zanu-PF fails to oust Speaker

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s attempt to get Simon Khaya Moyo elected as Speaker of Parliament failed on 30 March when the former Speaker, Lovemore Moyo of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai, unexpectedly prevailed.

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

The Speaker's chair

Members of Parliament are due to vote for a new Speaker in a contest that could determine the next president should 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe be declared medically unfit for office. In that event, Parliament and the Senate have to elect an ...

  • Vol 52 No 5
  •  4th March 2011

ZANU-PF cries treason

President Mugabe and his allies take stern action against the growing interest in North Africa’s revolutions

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

The junta gets ready

Didymus Mutasa, Administration Secretary of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, may have a reputation as a bumbler but he does voice thoughts others would prefer left unsaid. At a recent tree-planting function in Masvingo, he decla...

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Getting ready to vote

But when? President Mugabe wants a delay, his opponents want a road map and SADC does very little about it

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Even ZANU can change

As the junta got ready to step up its harassment and violence against the opponents of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, ZANU-PF’s rivals for the succession were flaunting their softer sides. Following the strategy advocated by Professo...

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

The wiles of a crocodile, the memory of an elephant

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will put on a show of unity and loyalty to President Mugabe at this week’s congress in Mutare. Despite the protestations, the party is divided over who should succeed eventually Mugabe as leader. Most ac...

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