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Zimbabwe: Soldiers riot over cash shortage

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:40:00 +0200

HARARE: Uniformed Zimbabwean soldiers raided one of the capital's money-changing haunts after becoming frustrated with queuing to withdraw cash at a Harare bank, according to an IRIN correspondent who witnessed the event. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zim-China trade hits US$500m mark

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:42:00 +0200

Asian giant is country's second largest trading partner after SA. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: No jingle bells, just a hopeless Christmas

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:22:00 +0200

What used to be a festive season full of spending has turned out to be a time of grief for both shoppers and retailers in Zimbabwe. Shops which used to burst with customers scrambling for bargains are desolate, and newspapers, which used to struggle to cope with advertorials on retail specials, are battling to fill advertising space. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: Less food for more mouths

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:52:00 +0200

JOHANNESBURG: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is moving into top gear this month to feed four million Zimbabweans, but severe funding shortages mean the organisation's coffers are beginning to run on empty, which has caused a cut in rations to below the minimum dietary recommendations. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: Hunting for good garbage to eat

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:42:00 +0200

Desperate entrepreneurs are scouring rubbish dumps, abattoirs and poisoned waterways for scraps of food to eat or sell to other equally hungry Zimbabweans in a bid for survival. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: The grey economy is the real one

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:30:00 +0200

Takunda Moyo, 35, seems the epitome of a successful business person: he drives a sleek car, wears designer label clothes, and is never short of a dollar or two. He is part of a new class of entrepreneur - the illegal foreign exchange hustler. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: 'Just airlift the food'

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:17:00 +0200

It gets worse each day for Zimbabweans struggling with shortages and escalating food prices, now denominated in US dollars. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe's survival recipe book

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:10:00 +0200

Rural Zimbabweans have always turned to an emergency larder of wild foods to see them through hard times, but in this year of shortages and dizzying prices for all basic foodstuffs, the fruits and roots foraged from the bush are keeping many alive. Read full story... | Send to a friend

RTGs: Wise technology put to wrong use in Zimbabwe

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:58:00 +0200

The introduction of the Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) a few years ago further enhanced the country's reputation for having one of the most advanced banking systems on the African continent, but there is now a serious rethink on whether such an advanced payments system is good for Zimbabwe, a nation battling its worst economic crisis in history. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: Military seed merchants

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:54:00 +0200

The distribution of agricultural inputs such as maize seed and fertilizer for the 2008/09 season has become the domain of Zimbabwe's military and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party. Read full story... | Send to a friend