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Zimbabwe, under the rule of President-for-Life Robert Mugabe, slips ever further back into the bush.(economic conditions)(Brief Article)

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* Zimbabwe, under the rule of President-for-Life Robert Mugabe, slips ever further back into the bush. The national airline, Air Zimbabwe, was recently obliged to ground its entire fleet of seven passenger planes because there was not enough foreign currency in the till to buy fuel. Zimbabwe's own currency, the Zimbabwe dollar, is well-nigh worthless, thanks to years of gross economic mismanagement by Mugabe and his pals, and the ...

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