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Zimbabwe

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

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Hungry for change

The famine sweeping Southern Africa threatens several governments – of which Robert Mugabe's is the most vulnerable

Some 20 million people in Southern Africa are at risk from mounting crop failures and food shortages. Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique are the worst hit by a mixture of political an...


Stalemate

Shrinking credibility and economic chaos push Mugabe towards the negotiating table

In a brutal game of political chess with his opponents, President Robert Mugabe now seems to be stalemated. Chronic shortages of food and fuel are forcing Mugabe and his ruling cli...


On the knife-edge

Neither side wants a power-sharing government but at least it might stop the violence

Quietly, within days of the disputed 10-12 March presidential election, the outline of a deal between Zimbabwe's warring political parties emerged. After two years of rising tensio...


The nomenklatura

Zimbabwe's nomenklatura and their business friends now face tightening economic 'smart' sanctions from the European Union and United States. Instead of widening the range of sancti...


Election arithmetic

Robert Mugabe's last stand is a key test of Africa's political resolve

The presidential vote on 10-11 March has become an election about Africa's future. For most Zimbabweans it is a key test of their political freedoms, won first in the Independence ...


The killing of Cain

ZANU-PF targets the MDC after the unsolved murder of a war veteran

A cartoon in the state-owned daily Herald on 19 November showed the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, glad-handing his backers - the independent press, the European Union, Brit...


The road to ruin

Mugabe needs to win the presidency again, even if he wrecks the country

International eyes are off Zimbabwe and President Robert Mugabe is having a good anti-terror war. The Commonwealth summit scheduled to have opened in Australia on 6 October would h...


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 on 29 July. The r...


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 Robert Mugabe is...


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 l...


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