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The number of farmers who have registered to grow tobacco in the 2014/15 period is up nearly 10 percent to 71 000 compared to the same period last year as preparations get underway for the new season, the industry regulator has said.

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Zimbabwe should clarify its foreign ownership law and demonstrate fiscal discipline by next year to unlock financial support from international financiers, International Monetary Fund country representative Domenico Fanizza said today.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front should decide conclusively who will succeed President Robert Mugabe at its congress in December to avoid prolonged uncertainty and a possible crisis should Mugabe be incapacitated or decide not to seek re-election in 2018.

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China Africa Sunlight Energy Africa and the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company have agreed a provisional power purchasing agreement for electricity that will be generated from the company’s proposed $2.1 billion energy projects in Gwayi.

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Jonathan Moyo’s war of words with former central bank governor Gideon Gono seems to be raging on, or so it seems. He has just told a conference of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators: “We must think inside the box and not outside the box. How can you tell us to think outside the box as if you have noticed that we are thinking inside the box? ”

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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front senator Monica Mutsvangwa signed the US$3.4 million “Consulting Agreement” with Chicago man, Prince Asiel Ben Israel, on 26 November 2008 and made the first transfer according the affidavit that establishes the case against Ben Israel and C. Gregory Turner also of Chicago.

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Zimbabwe is not poor. Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa was told this last week by International Monetary Fund representative Domenico Fanizza who said that the country did not qualify for debt relief because it was not poor.

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“Aware of the divisive and often times confrontational nature of elections and by elections; Noting the need to allow this agreement to take root amongst the parties and people of Zimbabwe; and Cognisant of the need to give our people some breathing space and a healing period…….”

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President Obama has responded to the Ebola crisis in Africa by sending 3,000 military personnel to the affected region. The real beneficiary of this militarised messianism is, in fact, the military-industrial complex back in the US

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A British Lord yesterday asked the age-old question of what the United Kingdom government was doing to bring charges against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for genocide and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

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