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Zimbabwe

Rubber dollars bounce back

Zimbabwe’s latest financial fix won’t work without radical political reform

If the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was a ship it would be the Titanic, sailing with the patronage of a well-heeled elite with privileged access ... to the life boats towards a deadly iceberg.

Dumiso Dabengwa

The struggle for freedom cannot be outsourced

An homage to one of Zimbabwe's pre-eminent war heroes ...

currency cowboys

Zimbabwe’s ‘Zollar’ being manipulated by political elites

The failure of the government to manage the currency risks turning Zimbabwe's financial crisis into a political tinderbox. ...

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extreme weather

Cyclone Idai is still killing people as the world forgets

Whatever happened to Cyclone Idai? It crashed through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi three weeks ago in what UN meteorologists classed as one ... of the worst disasters to hit the southern hemisphere.

state of the nation

Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises cost lives

Zimbabwe is often in the news for the wrong reasons. For a long time it was the autocratic leader Robert Mugabe who made sure of that. ...

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The great cash chase

Paris takes lead in Zimbabwe funding crisis

In search of urgent funds for his crash reform programme, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, held closed-door talks with French treasury ... officials and a consortium of international banks in Paris on 8 March.

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Behind the mask

Zimbabwe’s new currency masks need for a political fix

The new currency does not hide the fact that until the politics is sorted out, Zimbabwe's economic situation remains paralysed ...

Changing the narrative

A Star of Black Panther’s take on Zimbabwe’s inheritance of violence

Danai Gurira's portrayal of Wakanda's warrior chief Okoye in Black Panther has helped rewrite how Africans, particularly African women, are portrayed ... on international screens.

Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi for The Africa Report

Money magnet

‘Certain industries need to be protected’: Shingai Mutasa, Masawara Holdings

Through the prism of Sable Chemicals and the Cresta hotel group – assets he acquired in early 2018 – the Zimbabwean magnate talks about his ... hopes for the country's economy and the strategies its new government must adopt

It hurts

Zimbabwe plans new currency as dollar shortage bites

HARARE - Zimbabwe will introduce a new currency in the next 12 months, the country's Finance Minister said, as a shortage of U.S. dollars plunges ... the financial system into disarray, forcing businesses to close and threatening unrest.

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