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Zimbabwe Country Report
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Found 257 articles.
- Vol 49 No 17
- 22/08/2008
Our mutual friend
The control freaks of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front seem astonished that their diktats go unheard by the world's stock exchanges. Yet when it comes to their personal pockets, they show resource and ingenuity. The government's mudd...
- Vol 49 No 16
- 01/08/2008
Arms and the men
Investigators are probing multimillion pound payments from Britain through secret accounts to a key ally of President Robert Mugabe
- Vol 49 No 16
- 01/08/2008
The real deal
The three negotiating teams are to resume talks in South Africa on 3 August after a break to discuss progress with their respective parties. The original deadline for the installation of a new power-sharing government on 4 August will be missed. However, ...
- Vol 49 No 15
- 18/07/2008
ZANU-PF stashes the cash
As they drag out negotiations with the opposition, the ruling party's acolytes are hiding millions of US dollars in offshore accounts
- Vol 49 No 15
- 18/07/2008
Britain and the sanctions question
China and Russia's dual veto of a draft sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the United Nations Security Council on 11 July took nostalgic diplomats back to the height of the Cold War. Britain, France and the United States backed the sanctions resolut...
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
Deaths and deals
The government sets tough terms for a power-sharing deal that might end the crisis
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
Where the government gets its money
Foreign mining investors still drop cash into Zimbabwe's empty bucket. Anglo American hit the spotlight in June with its US$400 million Unki platinum project, to be run by its Johannesburg Anglo Platinum subsidiary, in Zimbabwe's Great Dyke, the second...
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
Can the party hold together?
With an eye to the succession, the top brass of Mugabe's party are squabbling and squirming
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
Keep an eye on Mnangagwa
The force behind Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign was former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, along with the military and security chiefs in the Joint Oper...
- Vol 49 No 14
- 04/07/2008
Authoritarian notes
Until Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leant on them, Munich-based security printers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH had a lucrative contract to supply paper for Zimbabwe's considerable demand for new currency notes. In direct competition with Britain's...
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