Zimbabwe crisis
Zimbabwe introduces gold coins as local currency tumbles
Zimbabwe’s central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month to help tame runaway inflation.
- Nyasha Chingono
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Zimbabweans boil used nappies to get high
Poverty-stricken drug users in the African country have turned to a cheaper narcotic.
- Peta Thornycroft and Will Brown
Zimbabwe offers $5 billion deal to evicted white farmers
Zimbabwe has agreed to compensate white farmers who had land taken from them but there are concerns that the bankrupt nation won't be able to pay up.
- Peta Thornycroft
'We'd prefer the food': Hungry Zimbabweans reject cash handouts
Many called it the "breadbasket of Africa", but Zimbabwe fears it has famine in its future.
- Jeffrey Moyo and Rick Gladstone
How a 'giant Ponzi scheme' destroyed a country's economy
It started when 'God's banker' started printing more and more Zimbabwean dollars, essentially making it worthless.
- Antony Sguazzin
Zimbabwe's violent crackdown continues with reports of rapes
Zimbabweans say abuses have not calmed since President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday denounced the violence as "unacceptable".
- Farai Mutsaka
Zimbabwe's civil servants to strike over salaries, as economic collapse deepens
The secretary of the Civil Service Apex Council said the strike will begin on Friday.
Zimbabwe's president returns amid economic crisis, protest crackdown
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his first priority "is to get Zimbabwe calm, stable and working again".
- Farai Mutsaka
'This is worse than Mugabe': Zimbabwe descends into chaos – again
Before the family of Kelvin Tinashe Choto knew he had been killed, social media was circulating a photo of his battered body on the counter of a police station.
Zimbabwe in 'total internet shutdown' amid deadly crackdown
The shutdown has cut off access to the electronic bank deposits that Zimbabwe's struggling government uses to pay teachers and other public workers, as well as social media services.
- Farai Mutsake