Zimbabwe, Africa

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ZIMBABWE: How do you rein in 231 million percent inflation?

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Zimbabwe's official annual inflation rate reached 231 million percent in early October, from the July estimate of 11.2 million percent, and the...

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ZIMBABWE: Local currency becomes an endangered species

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Zimbabwe dollar moved one step closer to extinction after the central bank authorised the use of foreign currency as legal tender in the country...

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ZIMBABWE: New forms of "money"

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Zimbabweans are turning to fuel coupons as a new form of "currency" after struggling to find local money, which continues to lose its value steeply....

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ZIMBABWE: Coins change fortunes

africa » zimbabwe » chitungwiza

Sunday, August 10, 2008

When the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced its decision to revive old coinage, Samuel Mapuranga, 29, of Chitungwiza, a dormitory city 30km...

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ZIMBABWE: Banks run out of money

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Attempts to tame Zimbabwe's multimillion percent annual inflation rate had an inauspicious beginning on 1 August when banks turned customers away...

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ZIMBABWE: A nation of billionaires

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Where in the world could you be a multi-billionaire and still go hungry? The answer is, of course, Zimbabwe. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has...

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ZIMBABWE: No foreign currency, no food

africa » zimbabwe » bulawayo

Thursday, July 10, 2008

A R100 (US$13) remittance from a relative living in South Africa was a lifeline to food for Lydia Nxumalo, 36, and her family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's...

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ZIMBABWE: No foreign currency, no food

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

A R100 (US$13) remittance from a relative living in South Africa was a lifeline to food for Lydia Nxumalo, 36, and her family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's...

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ZIMBABWE: NGOs withering under foreign currency shortages

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IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Scores of nongovernmental (NGO) andhumanitarian organisations are threatened with collapse afterZimbabwe's central bank failed to release money...

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James Murehwa, Zimbabwe: "Very few people have acquired the wealth I have"

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

James Murehwa, 32, is a foreign currency dealer on the illegal parallel market. He hopes President Robert Mugabe will be re-elected in the 29 March...

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