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Zimbabwe makes interesting reading. The country has been dragged into an attempted US$60 million arms purchase by Swaziland. The only reason is that Swaziland did not allegedly need the array of weapons requested. Another ventured elsewhere is that the country was trying to make up for weapons from China that it had been stopped from getting. But even in the diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, Zimbabwe was just mentioned in passing.

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The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme which is supposed to regulate the legal trade of rough diamonds may have inadvertently given Zimbabwe- or as most members claim president Robert Mugabe and his cronies- a free reign to sell Marange diamonds outside its system.

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Zimbabwe’s recent fuel shortage was due to fraud at the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe, Energy Minister Elton Mangoma said today.  He said NOCZIM had stolen $35m of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) funds between February 2009 and February 2010.  It had also not bought any strategic reserves since February 2009.

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Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma today issued a detailed statement on electricity and fuel supplies in the country. Here it is in full.

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Britain did not believe the Southern African Development Community could solve the crisis in Zimbabwe following the controversial 2008 elections and only agreed with the importance of the regional body one month after the signing of the Global Political Agreement, according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

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