Zimbabwe

WATER & BUSINESS PROJECTS

The European Development Bank is to make a 23-million ecu loan (30 million dollars) under Lomé IV that will finance [...]

COAL-BED METHANE BREAKTHROUGH

Negotiations are underway between a United States oil company and an Australian engineering firm to set up a joint venture [...]

CBM PROJECT GATHERS STEAM

A project to develop and use coal-bed methane (CBM) in the Lowveld region of Zimbabwe is expected to be carried [...]

NEW OPPOSITION PARTY ENTERS THE SCENE

The Forum for Democatic Reform, a pressure group made up of black and white Zimbabwean liberals announced this week its [...]

CONSTANTLY RISING INFLATION

With an estimated annual rate of between 40 and 45 percent for 1992, inflation will have tripled in four years [...]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on September 14 that [...]

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HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Southern African power companies are being forced to make ever-increasing power cuts because of low water levels due to the unprecedented drought that has gripped the south-east corner of the continent this year. In Tanzania, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corp.

Mashonaland Holding plans to start producing small wind power generators [...]

IMPORTS RISE AT SLOWER RATE

An official from the South African trade mission in Harare, Henning Visser, cited by Zimbabwean weekly, The Financial Gazette of [...]

NEW US SUGAR QUOTAS

The United States has decided to cut preferential or tax free sugar quotas by eleven percent from October 1, 1992, [...]

Two South African experts from the Council of Scientific and [...]

FRENCH INVOLVED IN AIRPORT PROJECT

Aéroports de Paris (ADP) and the Office Français d'Exportation de Matériel Aéronautique (OFEMA) signed a contract with the Zimbabwe authorities [...]

The chief of the Zimbabwean police force, Augustine Chihuri and [...]

COALBED METHANE: NEW PARTNER

Trotter Exploration, operator of the exploration-development programme for coalbed methane in the Lowveld, has teamed with Afpenn Holdings of the [...]

INTERCONNECTIONS: NEW ACCORDS WITH ESKOM

Eskom of South Africa has announced a new set of [...]

While Zimbabwe was without electricity for a few hours on [...]

A consortium of Czech and Slovak breweries may invest several [...]

The Norwegian government has decided to merge its embassies and [...]

ROBERT MUGABE

Zimbabwe's President said on July 24 that "it is shameful [...]