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Zimbabwe will hold elections on 23 August. As with past votes, the playing field is skewed in favour of the ruling party ZANU-PF. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Nicolas Delaunay lays out the stakes and assesses the risks of violence.

Yet again, Zimbabwe is on the edge of another crisis period. This is one such episode that should never have happened and it is time for some straight talking. In 1997, we were on the edge of real progress - the economy was growing strongly, we had a stable currency and inflation was in single-digit…

Yet again, Zimbabwe is on the edge of another crisis period. This is one such episode which should never have happened and it is time for some straight talking.

TREASURY says it remains focused on reducing inflation and stabilising the exchange rate in its quest to achieve full macroe-conomic stability

There are calls to allow President Mnangagwa to preside over the management of the country’s affairs for five more years to finish various

Goodbye 2020, Welcome 2021 What a year this has been, not many of us would want to see a repeat. But has it been so bad really? In Zimbabwe we started the year with 700 per cent inflation, a balanced budget but much diminished incomes and an economy which was already in steep decline. Then Covid in March. What more could this world of ours throw at us? Source: Eddie Cross The answer was a lot more if we could take it. My own view is that we had Covid 19 quite early on. The flow of Chinese to a...