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Police should respect vendors and treat them with dignity because whatever they are selling some of them could be using the money to educate the president of tomorrow, the Member of Parliament for Kuwadzana Lucia Matibenga said this week.

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LONDON – Since 2008, global trade has grown slightly more slowly than global GDP. The Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations ended in failure. Transatlantic and transpacific trade negotiations are progressing slowly, held back by the resistance of special interests. But, though many experts fear that protectionism is undermining globalization, threatening to impede global economic growth, slower growth in global trade may be inevitable, and trade liberalization is decreasingly important.

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Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba this week said companies in Zimbabwe would not close down if he were Minister of Industry and Commerce because we were destroying our…

President Robert Mugabe should focus on reviving the country’s economy instead of focusing on Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s sex life, Tsvangirai’s spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka said in a statement today.

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The Member of Parliament for Goromonzi West this week said Zimbabwe needs leaders and not rulers and described rulers as people who did want they wanted without consulting the people.

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Relations between Zimbabwe and Britain have been frosty for over a decade. But Britain has continued to give aid to Zimbabwe, on humanitarian grounds, it claims. The Department for International…

Zambia tells Britain sanctions on Zimbabwe are hurting it too – Zambia’s Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda has told Britain’s Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe because they are affecting his country’s growth as well. “We are appealing to Britain to help some of our neighbouring countries like Zimbabwe, our economies in this region are inter-linked, when there is a problem there, it spills over to us…..We need to grow our economy and reduce donor dependence,” he told Greening who is visiting Zambia. Britain pushed for sanctions on Zimbabwe through the European Union more than 10 years ago. The EU lifted sanctions on all Zimbabwean individuals and entities this year leaving only President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace and the Zimbabwe Defence Industries. It promised to review the situation on 1 November and might review bilateral aid. The United States on the other hand regularised its sanctions on Zimbabwe yesterday.

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Vice President Joice Mujuru says there are no short-cuts to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leadership. The party, which is preparing for its elective congress this year, is not…

Zimbabwe earned only US$18 million in diamond dividends when the government had estimated that it would collect US$70 million but it has now introduced measures to ensure that it gets its dues, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest country report.

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The current deflation in Zimbabwe may not be bad for the country after all. The International Monetary Fund says in its country report released on Friday that falling prices boost real money supply and could alleviate the persistent liquidity shortages.

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