Dual currency is making the streets of Harare feel like a million dollars because everyone wants to Eet-Sum-Mor, writes Stanley Kwenda.
NGOs have put forward demands opposing the continuing talks on economic partnership agreements between the EU and African countries.
Several of Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped public schools have requested pupils to bring furniture from home. The education system is struggling under the weight of the country’s seven-year-long political crisis. Zimbabwe’s school system was one of the best on the African continent after the country gained independence in 1980. Previously the government provided furniture and other necessities.
No image available
/ 28 February 2007
Zimbabwean rights activists are campaigning with unprecedented vigour for an end to the death penalty as the country’s political and economic crisis deepens, arguing that this is essential for an open debate on the nation’s future and its joining the "civilised democracies of the world".