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Wait times for crop payments and exchange-rate roulette can wreak havoc on tobacco farmers’ profits.
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Zimbabwean activist has not been seen since March 2015 disappearance, days after urging leader Robert Mugabe to quit.
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Vulnerable informal workers risk arrest and sickness to try eke out a living and feed their families.
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Some Zimbabwean businesses have been pushed to the brink by the COVID pandemic, but others have leveraged disruptions.
![At Harare' Warren Hills cemetery, metal sheets used as makeshift tombstones to identify the graves show that the majority of the deceased died in the first half of the month [Chris Muronzi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sss-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Country experiencing significant surge in coronavirus infections, forcing authorities to tighten restrictions.
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Amid a deepening economic crisis, Zimbabwe’s healthcare system is in shambles as coronavirus patients mount.
High inflation, low disposable income, other economic hardships have forced a muted festive season for most Zimbabweans.
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Zimbabwe is losing an estimated $100m a month to gold smuggling – an illicit trade that is increasing violence.
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Threat of arrests by police decried as an attempt to muzzle freedom of expression in crisis-hit country.
![Hopewell Chin'ono: 'Fighting corruption is something that we should all do, and it's not my fight alone' [File: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8VQ48Q.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Before latest court appearance, journalist and anti-corruption campaigner vows to keep exposing wrongdoing.