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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Population: 16.99m
GDP: $35.91bn
Debt: 98.5% of GDP (2024)

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The ugly endgame

President Mugabe has been wounded by his party's parliamentary defeat but his loyalists plan a final orgy of repression

War veterans, 'green bombers' and other irregular armed military units are being despatched across Zimbabwe to crush the opposition Movement for Democratic Change following its win in the...


The hyperinflation club

On the fringes of an opposition rally just before the election stood a solitary figure holding a placard, his jacket pasted with Z$10 million bearer cheques. With the...


The sick man of the south

President Mugabe's disastrous stewardship is dragging the region's economy downwards but the leaders are divided on the remedy

Zimbabwe's elections on 29 March raise some hard questions for the region. Member governments and the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community, Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa, have...


Elections within elections

The presidential contest attracts most attention but the battle for Parliament may decide the outcome

There are four elections in Zimbabwe on 29 March and none of them are going according to plan for President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The old mixture of coercion...


A birthday at Beitbridge

Economic hardship and growing divisions in the ruling party give the opposition candidates a better chance in the coming elections

President Robert Mugabe, sure of victory in the presidential election on 29 March, chose to hold his 84th birthday party in Beitbridge. The party overlooked the border post...


Constituency carve-ups

Whatever may happen in the presidential poll, the legislative elections are crucial and independent candidates likely to swing behind Simba Makoni are thin on the ground. A total...


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