Posted on 03/19/2009 4:24:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
HARARE, Zimbabwe – President Robert Mugabe and a longtime opposition leader-turned-finance minister made an unusual joint appeal Thursday for $5 billion (euro3.66 billion) in international aid to revive Zimbabwe's shattered economy.
The two men presented an economic recovery program that scraps the stringent price controls which have fueled a black market and spiraling inflation. It also sets up "safety nets and social protection for vulnerable groups exposed to market forces," Finance Minister Tendai Biti said, without offering details.
The longtime opponents disagreed, however, over the causes of the country's economic meltdown.
Biti said Zimbabwe had to do its part by restoring democratic freedoms and the rule of law — and demanded that a new wave of seizures of white-owned farms in recent weeks blamed on Mugabe loyalists stop.
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Considering the mess in Washington and Nancy Pelosi’s mental state, this would not surprise me.
Paul Theroux served in Africa in the Peace Corps.Forty years later in 2002, he returned to write a book, Dark Star Safari, and he traveled Overland from Cairo to Capetown
Everything had slid backwards
Yes,the note is real but I don’t think it made it into circulation as they devalued the currency in early February by removing 12 zeros,so 1 trillion became 1,and new notes were introduced.But the 50 tril note was in use and would buy about two slices of bread...
Your check is in the next AIG bailout.
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