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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 51 No 11
  •  28th May 2010

Legal limits

The Harare legal profession is enjoying itself at the expense of fellow practitioner Jonathan Samkange, a favourite in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who shuns the human rights lobby; he also represented British mercenary Simon Mann, ...

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

Diamond disputes

Quarrels over diamond concessions preoccupy politicians of all stripes and some adventurous foreign capitalists

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

Spiriting away diamonds

Backed by Police Commissioner General and junta member Augustine Chihuri, the Governor of Manicaland Chris Mushohwe has barred the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy from visiting the controversial Marange Chiadzwa diamond fields (AC Vo...

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

The Malema effect

The royal reception accorded to South Africa’s firebrand youth leader Julius Malema in Zimbabwe over the Easter weekend has proved counterproductive (AC Vol 51 No 7). As President of the African National Congress Youth League, Malema told President Robert...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

The diamond mine drama

A politically charged dispute over ownership of diamond fields in Chiadzwa could turn into an international lawsuit

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

Easter parade

After South African President Jacob Zuma's 16-18 March trip to Harare, the abrasive Chairman of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, is due to arrive in Zimbabwe on 2 April for a four-day tour at the invitation of the dominant Zimbab...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

Reluctantly to the election

The political stalemate in the coalition is blocking reforms and economic recovery and may force a snap election – if South Africa can’t forge a deal

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

The next revolution

The crisis at Telecel Zimbabwe points to the political and economic problems with the new indigenisation laws, which many see as yet another form of patronage for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. Telecel is the second largest mobile te...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

A clash at the border

A confrontation between Harare and Gaborone over a wandering pride of lions has escalated into a serious bilateral rift

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Petrified Politburos

The old ruling party’s new Politburo, announced on 11 February, is anything but new. The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s 49-member policy-making committee, announced by Robert Gabriel Mugabe, national President and First Secretary of ZAN...

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