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Members of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce blasted the government for policy inconsistencies and reversals and accused the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe of usurping the functions of the Ministry of Finance.

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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank killed the booming peasant agriculture in Zimbabwe reducing the country to a perennial food importer whereas it had been a net exporter prior to their structural adjustment programme, a new study by the Jubilee Debt Campaign says.

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Belgium said it had no objection to the addition of central bank governor Gideon Gono’s name to the United Nations Security Council sanctions list.

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The Italian government said it supported the Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe which entitled the United Nations to intervene militarily in the southern African country but said it had no comment on central bank governor Gideon Gono at the time.

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France said it would support the inclusion of central bank governor Gideon Gono on the European sanctions list which would in turn facilitate his inclusion on the United Nations Security Council list.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front would not rig the elections and would seek to work with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai if he won.

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The British government yesterday confirmed that it sold 1 5000 landrovers to the Zimbabwe Republic Police in 1998 and underwrote a loan of just over 15 million pounds for the purchase.

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We now have 850 Wikileaks cables on one page, though we have published over 1 000. Here is the line-up. To read more cables use our index where cables are indexed by name.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono was in March 2007 forced to go the streets for money after South African banks refused to give him credit to finance food imports, his advisor Munyaradzi Kereke told United States embassy officials.

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President Robert Mugabe was firmly in control of the country and central bank governor Gideon Gono had to kowtow to him over every incremental devaluation and cloak it obsequiously as a magnanimous gesture from the president.

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