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Zimbabwe

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

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Hanging in there

The ruling party is stronger at home than it looks from abroad

The strategy to win President Robert Mugabe six more years in power claimed victory at Bindura, a mining town 60 kilometres north of the capital, in a by-election...


The hand of Lucifer

Three sudden deaths transform the political scene and President Mugabe's election campaign

To lose one lieutenant may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness, to lose three could spark a political crisis. Whether or not President...


The military-financial complex

Zimbabwe's soldiers will not soon pull out of Congo-Kinshasa. Their commanders are committed to President Robert Mugabe's government through a web of business ventures there. The links run...


More of Mugabe

The President's insistence that he will fight the next election surprises few and worries almost everyone

The President's indecision is final. President Robert Mugabe's announcement on 17 April that he will contest the next presidential election as his party's flagbearer has resolved nothing (AC...


Still the boss

President Robert Mugabe held onto the party presidency at the special congress of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front on 13-15 December.


Morgan versus Mugabe

Oppositionists take to the streets to chase the President from power but his own party may beat them to it

The more opponents urge President Robert Mugabe to quit, the more he wants to stay put. His backers insist that he will be running again in the 2002...


Military minders

The stance of Zimbabwe's 40,000-strong armed forces will be critical in the coming months. At the senior officer level, there is still tremendous loyalty to the ruling Zimbabwe...


Bobodan's battles

Two weeks of mass opposition protests and clashes with the army and police have further weakened President Robert Mugabe and his opponents draw parallels with the overthrow of...


Union is strength

A dilemma for the trades union's new party: to represent the electors or the workers?

The Movement for Democratic Change, offspring of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, amazed everybody by winning 57 of the 120 seats contested at the parliamentary elections in...


Changing floors

Union officials now MPs for the Movement for Democratic Change...


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