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Top MDC official faces charges after calling for Mnangagwa to be overthrown
Job Sikhala was summoned to report to police in Harare on Tuesday after he reportedly made the call at the weekend.
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Mnangagwa & Ramaphosa discuss Zimbabwe's growing power crisis
Zimbabwe was experiencing daily power cuts of around 18 hours due to reduced generating capacity.
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Zimbabwe president says needs to import 800,000 tonnes of maize - media
A United Nations agency has said up to 5 million Zimbabweans, a third of the population would need food aid this year following the El Nino-induced drought.
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Zimbabwe allays fears over gold sales, remittances after currency reform
On Monday, Zimbabwe declared its interim RTGS dollar the only legal tender, ending the decade-long use of multiple currencies including the US dollar.
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Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa talks up currency reform but business wary
Mnangagwa, who replaced longtime leader Robert Mugabe after an army coup in November 2017, is trying to attract investment and lift growth after a litany of failed economic interventions under his predecessor.
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Mnangagwa stands by decision on Zim dollar
The move, announced on Monday, has sparked fears of a return of hyper-inflation and shortages last seen a decade ago.
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Prisons under siege as Zimbabwe's economic woes persist
Convicts and wardens alike bemoan packed cells where running water is erratic and shortages of food, clothes and bedding prevail.
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Mnangagwa: Zim's local 'dollar' should be allowed to depreciate further
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa also spoke of his dismay at rising prices but said his government won’t be imposing price controls.
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Ignore advert about cheap commodities, Zim central bank tells citizens
It said the advert was fake and misleading because it used the address and phone number for the central bank and its governor.
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Zimbabwe court releases 2 more rights activists
The pair were among a group of seven human rights defenders arrested at Harare airport on their arrival from the Maldives.
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Zimbabwean govt plans to introduce new currency by end of year
Most Zimbabweans were using local electronic RTGS dollars introduced in February, but the currency lost value against the US dollar, leading to massive price hikes and high inflation.
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Zimbabwe and EU seek to move on from Mugabe-era strains
During Robert Mugabe’s four-decade rule until 2017, he would routinely blame European 'colonialists' for Zimbabwe’s problems.
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Zimbabwe starts rolling power cuts, hitting mines, industry
The power cuts will add to mounting public anger against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government as Zimbabweans grapple with an economic crisis that has seen shortages of US dollars, fuel, food and medicines.
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Zim central bank sees official, black market exchange rates converging
The country in February ditched its discredited 1:1 official peg to the US dollar, and merged bond notes and electronic dollars into a transitional currency called the RTGS dollar.
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ANALYSIS: Air Zim: If it's not safe for the president, it’s not safe for anyone
Oliver Matthews says it hasn't escaped the attention of locals that President Emmerson Mnangagwa himself doesn't fly Air Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe acquits 7 unionists arrested ahead of protests
The seven Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions leaders were arrested before an October protest march over the country's economic woes.
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Inflation nightmare returns to haunt Zimbabwe
After the central bank unveiled a new monetary policy in February, introducing a new local currency, prices of goods and services have skyrocketed at rates unseen in a decade.
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Zimbabwe to start paying white farmers compensation after April
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government sees the paying of compensation to white farmers as key to mend ties with the West, and set aside $17.5 million in this year’s budget to that end.
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Zimbabwe finmin criticises 'profiteering' price hikes as new currency falls
Since the RTGS dollar was introduced in February, prices of staples including sugar, cooking oil and rice have risen as much as 60%, squeezing already hard-pressed consumers.
