Madhouse market economics and avaricious leaders are fuelling catastrophe as cholera begins to spread
The rains have barely broken and already deaths from cholera have been reported in all but one of Zimbabwe’s ten provinces. The United Nations and local doctors report that more than 6,000 people contracted cholera this month – and over 300 died of it. There are health warnings in newspapers and on the television along with panic reports that neighbouring states may close their borders as sick Zimbabweans seek treatment outside their country. Medical treatment is hard to find; staff at Harare’s main hospital, demonstrating against the closure of wards and lack of facilities, medicines and pay, met the usual heavy response from the riot police.
Share transfers can provide a means to export foreign exchange from Zimbabwe, as long as you get permission
Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono and Harare businessman Mohammed I. Mohammed are using a British company to siphon tens of millions of US dollars out of Zimbabwe to buy fuel and f...
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua wants to use the budget as a key to his political revival – but business and voters are sceptical
Calculated and recalculated according to the wild swings of the global oil market, the 2009 budget is almost up there with the election tribunal and the cabinet reshuffle as one of...
