News about Zimbabwe that you can use
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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Air Zimbabwe, which collapsed a year ago but has now resumed operations, was in trouble more than a decade ago forcing then Finance Minister Simba Makoni to enter into a deal with Eximbank to stop the national airline’s two Boeing 767s from being impounded by creditors.
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Former legislator for Murehwa North Victor Chitongo told a United States embassy official in September 2002 that President Mugabe wanted to retire in 2001 but was urged to stay on by several of his appointed cabinet ministers.
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Roy Bennett’s lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa opposed the admission of emails linking Peter Michael Hitschmann and Bennett saying they could easily have been authored by Sate security agents.
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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo accused the British government of “going bananas” when they refused Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Joshua Malinga entry into the UK because of the European Union travel ban on senior ZANU-PF officials.
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