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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 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

A public quarrel

Disagreements within the top echelons of ZANU-PF used to be a state secret, now rival factions are briefing reporters about the meltdown

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Until the stout lady sings

All the party leaders are struggling to keep a grip on their undisciplined comrades

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Crime and amnesty

Army officers fear prosecution for their role in the violence of last year's elections

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

The fight over the basic law

None of the parties are as yet prepared to derail the coalition but all are relentlessly probing each other’s weaknesses

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

No rally for the MDC

The Zimbabwe Republic Police, under Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, celebrated Independence Day on 18 April by withdrawing permission for a rally by the Movement for Democratic Change on the spurious grounds that officials from the Zimbabwe African Nation...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

From retreat to turnaround

Foreign investors but not their governments are beginning to take Harare's new order more seriously

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

Good-bye to Zimbabwe's dollar

'There will be no immediate plans to [re]introduce the money because there is nothing to support and hold its value,' said Economic Planning and Development Minister Elton Mangoma. In reality, the Zimbabwe dollar ceased to be a currency months ago, as its...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

Tendai Biti has a plan

Finance Minister Tendai Biti has emerged as the key figure in Zimbabwe's economic recovery, walking the uneasy path between securing external finance from sceptical outsiders and dealing with his crafty colleagues from President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe A...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Sanctions and finance

South Africa's Trevor Manuel and the AfDB's Donald Kaberuka call for a substantial finance package to support Harare's new government

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Bredenkamp bites back

Some of the businessmen targeted for sanctions by the European Union and United States are fighting back. John Bredenkamp, named as a collaborator of President Robert Mugabe’s regime by the EU and the USA, has won an interim injunction in Johannesburg pre...

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