News about Zimbabwe that you can use
The former chief executive of the Daily News Sam Sipepa Nkomo told United States embassy officials that he had a list of Daily News staff that were on the payroll of Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.
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Things were so bad in Zimbabwe towards the end of 2002 that economists pointed out that Zimbabwe had very few hard-currency assets left to expropriate, sell or barter.
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Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s camp abused state-controlled funds to finance Mnangagwa’s ill-fated succession campaign according to former Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube who now leads the smaller faction of the MDC.
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The government was so desperate for fuel towards the end of 2002 that it illegally pilfered Independent Petroleum Group fuel stored in Zimbabwe and pondered the selling the Air Zimbabwe fleet to raise hard currency.
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President Robert Mugabe has been a tough nut for the United States to crack.
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe at one time planned to lease Air Zimbabwe planes to raise scarce foreign currency. The plan was to be presented to the Ministry of Finance for vetting.
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Indigenous banks like the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe had found a niche market offering tax-evasion assistance for exporters that they were not likely to stop this practice despite the announcement of a new exchange rate by the government.
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A Libyan intelligence officer Yousef Murgham, who had retired and decided to stay in Zimbabwe and married a local woman, was deported in August 2002 for engaging in activities that posed a threat to national security.
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Standard Chartered Chief Executive and Zimbabwe Bankers’ Association President Washington Matsaira told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that President Mugabe’s inner-circle “hawks”- Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Agriculture Minister Joseph Made, Information
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