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Zimbabwe’s Inflation Rate Skyrockets
Zimbabwe’s Inflation Rate Skyrockets
Wednesday February 14, 2007 12:16 AM
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Huge price increases for bread, electricity and meat drove Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate to 1,593.6 percent, the Central Statistical Office was quoted Tuesday as saying.
The figure for January 2007 represents a 312.5 percent increase on the December rate, the biggest leap in 17 months. Economists have said there could be hourly price increases in stores by May or June, the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported last week.
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Zimbabwe: Trouble Mounts
Business in Africa (Johannesburg)
February 12, 2007
Posted to the web February 12, 2007
Johannesburg — Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Trade warned this week that those guilty of overcharging on basic food items and commodities could be jailed.
Police took two leading businessmen of Blue Ribbon Food into custody last week and charged them with illegally raising the price of flour, The Herald reported. Flour is one of several staple foods placed under strict government price controls.
Prices in Zimbabwe rise almost daily as businesses struggle to remain viable.
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Amnesty International Archives
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PZ daily
Stop by every day for PZ daily, an inside look at what is going on in Zimbabwe and how we can pray leading up to the International Day of Prayer for Zimbabwe on April 18, 2007.
the needs…
The crisis in Zimbabwe has escalated to an unimaginable point. We MUST do something to help the victims of this humanitarian travesty.
- : UNICEF is reporting that almost 1 in 4 children are now AIDS orphans.
- : The inflation rate is estimated at around 1200 percent.
- : Unemployment is over 80 percent, forcing citizens to desperate measures such as illegal mining.
- : Controversial land reform and forced eviction programs have left thousands of people homeless, displaced, or dead.
- : Food shortages are a growing problem.
- : Medicine is in short supply, hospitals are in crisis, and now doctors have been on strike for the past two months. Average life expectancy has dropped to a meager 36 years.
- : Laws restricting humanitarian organizations are keeping much-needed assistance from the people.
- : President Robert Mugabe was named the world’s 4th worst dictator by Parade Magazine. Political corruption and governmental abuses are rampant.
- : Economist ranked Zimbabwe as dead last internationally in quality of life.
