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Zimbabwe

Population: 13.1 million
GNI: $4500 million
Debt: $3300 million
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Efforts by ZANU-PF dissidents under General Solomon Mujuru to form a United Front with Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC might just halt President Robert Mugabe's march towards another election victory in 2008.

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  • Vol 48 No 18
  • 07/09/2007

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 'w...

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

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 c...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

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
  • 03/08/2007

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
  • 06/07/2007

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
  • 30/03/2007

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
  • 30/03/2007

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

Analysis

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

Beware the Ides of March

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

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

Cash and blood on the streets

The lack of serious diplomatic pressure for change in Zimbabwe goes together with an almost total lack of planning for the aftermath of President Robert Mugabe's exit from power. Business people and financiers are quicker off the mark than their diplom...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Shuffling the deckchairs

Ministers may change but economic policy still defies reality, as the currency crashes

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