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Gasoline coupon is latest currency in Zimbabwe

Reeling from the highest inflation rate in the world, barred by the government from using U.S. dollars for purchases, Zimbabweans turned to a new money source Wednesday: gasoline coupons. A man carries a bag filled with old Zimbabwean coins to a bank in downtown Harare Friday August 1, 2008. In a sign of its dire financial crisis, Zimbabwe's reserve bank has knocked 10 zeros off the hyper-inflated currency, when 10 billion dollars becomes one dollar, just a week after the introduction of a 100 b...

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Zimbabwe Urged to Allow Aid Groups to Provide Assistance

U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Henrietta Fore calls for the Zimbabwean regime to "immediately and completely rescind the June 4 NGO suspension order" that blocks nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from providing humanitarian assistance.

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S. African Leader Tries To Revive Zimbabwe Talks

South African President Thabo Mbeki travels to Zimbabwe on Wednesday to meet with President Robert Mugabe in an attempt to inject new life into power-sharing negotiations. On Tuesday, Mbeki met with the opposition leader.

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Zimbabwes Chiwoniso Will Release Rebel Woman in September 2008, Reflecting on Freedom, Equality and Love

Rebel Woman will be Chiwoniso Maraire’s first internationally released album in over ten years. Her soulful and deeply personal songs offer messages of hope, inspiration and resistance, serving notice that this gifted singer and songwriter merits recognition as one of Africa’s greatest young talents. “I am like a mirror,” declares Maraire. “I basically sing about what I see happening in the world. If someone comes up to me in the street to ask for money I’ll sing about that. If peop...

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Zimbabwe: $100 billion = 3 eggs

Zimbabwe now has the world's highest inflation rate -- officially above two million percent but widely seen much higher. The country's largest bank note, a 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar bill introduced on Monday, cannot...

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Africa Update: African Oil, American Prices

On today's "Africa Update," Zimbabwe's leaders agree to hold talks to resolve the country's political crisis. Plus, the United States lifts a ban on visitors with HIV, and we take a look at how Africa's oil affects the cost of gas in America.

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The average Zimbabwen lives now on 1 billion dollars a day.

Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes - CNN.com: Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy. via Tyler Cowen

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The Magic Of Zero And Goddess Of Inflation

Zimbabwe's hyperinflation has finally reached Weimarian levels: over 2 million per cent! Let's see them get to infinity. Infinity is now possible in the West due to computers that were first developed for one reason only: to crack Nazi codes...

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China gets green light to buy ivory

China has been approved as a buyer of African Elephant ivory in a one-off sale from four southern African countries, probably later this year. The decision was taken to accept China at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Geneva, Switzerland. To gain approval, China had to convince CITES it had put in place adequate measures to manage regulated sales and tackle any illegal domestic ivory trade. “Ch...

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This Monday June 30, 2008 file photo shows Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe leaving the eleventh ordinary session of th...

AP - This Monday June 30, 2008 file photo shows Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe leaving the eleventh ordinary session of the assembly of the African Union heads of State and government in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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