Zimbabwe’s inflation is now said to be 4 million percent, while a German company says it has stopped providing bank note paper to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s inflation is now said to be 4 million percent, while a German company says it has stopped providing bank note paper to Zimbabwe
Mugabe is still president of Zimbabwe.
The BBC reports today:
Supermarket chain Tesco has announced it will stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe while “the political crisis persists” there.
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The retail giant buys around £1m ($1.9m) worth of goods, including vegetables, from Zimbabwe.
How to get Robert Gabriel Mugabe out of power.
The BBC’s John Simpson is reporting from Harare.
As a result, the economy here is now in free-fall.
When I arrived in Harare on Monday, the Zimbabwean dollar had fallen to 9 billion to the US dollar. On Tuesday it was 12 billion, and on Wednesday 15 billion.
Inflation is said to be 165,000%.
One member of my team [...]
From the best blog on the web, Boston.com’s The Big Picture, today’s post features a dozen photographs of recent violence in South Africa. While the post’s title includes “South Africa,” with the current problems in neighboring Zimbabwe, nearly every photo shows Zimbabwean strife and the effect Mugabe’s cruel dictatorship is having on southern Africa as a [...]
Remarkable satellite images of Africa showing stark changes in the continent’s landscape over the past half century years from NatGeo. This one below shows Kilimanjaro.
Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro has seen dramatic glacial retreat between 1976 (left) and 2006. The mountaintop glacial area has decreased 80 percent since the early 20th century, says a UN atlas released [...]
How to vote in Zimbabwe tomorrow.
The UN Security Council condemns the violence in Zimbabwe today, but we still haven’t seen signs there will be any actions taken to stop Mugabe.
All major news organizations are reporting early this morning that the Movement for Democratic Change’s leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of Friday’s run-off election with Robert Mugabe. It’s a shocking blow that automatically hands victory to Mugabe.
The BBC has the full story.