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Zimbabwe

Population: 16.48m
GDP: $34.41bn
Debt: 98.5% of GDP (2024)

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First the provinces, then the presidency

Factionalism is alive and well in ZANU-PF ahead of its national conference in Gweru on 9-12 December. The internecine disputes played out in the provincial party elections...


War winnings

Officials at Congo-Kinshasa’s state mining company Gécamines confirm that control of the Central Group of copper and cobalt mines around Likasi, (with associated facilities, including the super-profitable Shituru...


In the badlands

The government may have to choose between land reform or fighting in the Congo

Donors were pleased, Zimbabwe’s voters may not be. Yet President Robert Mugabe is unlikely to be asking for their votes again. His government abandoned its hard line on...


Questions of succession

Replacing veteran Vice-President Joshua Nkomo has opened new political divisions

Zimbabwe has two vice-presidents, Joshua Nkomo and Simon Muzenda, but people may have forgotten that Nkomo still exists. He does not appear in public; President Robert Mugabe continues...


IMF insiders

Business people cannot understand what the International Monetary Fund is up to. It keeps on lending to the Zimbabwe government which, on the published figures, is heading for...


Mortgaged

The land conference on 24-25 June could turn into a fiasco, some insiders predict. White commercial farmers, the biggest losers if the government confiscates their land without compensation,...


Pain in the neck

The Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been a pain in the government's neck for the past six months.Two fresh victories should...


Counting allies

President Mugabe's toughest opponents are not politicians but they know about politics

When January's riots followed December's peaceful demonstrations, Zimbabweans started to say that President Robert Mugabe was finished. He came through, not because anything had changed but because no...


Freed-up funds

Zimbabwe and the International Monetary Fund want to kiss and make up. In 1995, the Fund cut Zimbabwe out of its books, for failing to keep the promises...


Union is strength

As President Mugabe's credibility fades, a union leader looks like the coming man

The lifts at Chester House on Speke Avenue in Harare no longer run up to the tenth floor, where the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has its head...


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