Zimbabwe offers amnesty for funds stashed abroad

In a bid to ease cash shortages, Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has offered a three-month amnesty for companies and individuals to surrender public funds illegally stashed in overseas bank accounts.

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has offered a three-month amnesty for companies and individuals to surrender public funds illegally stashed in overseas bank accounts.

He hopes this will ease chronic cash shortages; however, people are sceptical about his plan.

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Harare.