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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 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Ghostly presences

As Mugabe’s party declines in Matebeleland, the old alternative resistance movement is climbing out of the grave

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Malema loses a friend

Robert Mugabe’s bid for Kwame Nkrumah’s pan-African kente cloth won mixed reviews at the African National Congress’s Youth Conference near Johannesburg. Tongai Kasukuwere, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Youth League Secretary for External...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Indigens and expatriates

The National Indigenisation and Empowerment Board is supposed to ensure that 51% of the economy is indigenised by 2015. However, its original target of a blanket 51% indigenous holding has been replaced by a sector by sector approach with subsidiary board...

  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Bullfighting

The Politburo of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has always regarded the award of hero status as within its sole gift, something hotly contested by the Movement for Democratic Change and one of the outstanding issues of 2008's Global P...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

What mattered was the football

World Cup fever overshadowed both a spectacular political row and preparations for a new constitution

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Restless spirits

The Ndebele can't agree on a living leader and many still take their inspiration from the late Joshua Nkomo

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

Diplomacy by other means

Harare’s foreign policy is splitting at the seams – and so is the awkward ZANU-PF-MDC coalition

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

Newsdays and the old days

The new Media Commission is finally operational and is issuing licences to publish newspapers. After a year’s foot-dragging, during which the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) tried every delaying tactic, the arrival of the Newsday...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  •  11th June 2010

Abbey's all clear

The recommendation by Abbey Chikane, a monitor for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds, that Zimbabwe be allowed to resume exports from the much contested Marange fields may strip the last vestiges of credibility from the KPCS. Chikane...

  • Vol 51 No 11
  •  28th May 2010

Squashing the judges

The courts, despite everything, persist in doing justice sometimes and the President is not amused

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