IMF and diamonds

The International Monetary Fund wants Finance Minister Tendai Biti to handle all diamond transactions so that Zimbabwe can use the revenue to repay part of its external debt totalling $7.1 billion, reports said today. This would, however, require an amendment to the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation Act as the ZMDC is presently mining and selling the diamonds.

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