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90 yr old Mugabe falls at Harare airport
Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe fell down a staircase on Wednesday as he walked off a podium after addressing supporters at Harare international airport, an AFP correspondent said. He had just returned from Ethiopia where he took over the rotating chairmanship of the African Union. Africa’s oldest leader, who turns 91 later this month, had concluded his homecoming speech when…
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Zimbabwe Minister says state wage bill unsustainable as IMF starts audit
The wage bill for Zimbabwe’s state employees is embarrassing and unsustainable, its finance minister said on Tuesday, echoing criticism from the IMF as the country looks to regain access to international credit lines. More than three quarters of the southern African country’s revenue goes to paying salaries of more than 250,000 civil servants, leaving little money to pay down debt…
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