Zimbabwe price cuts spark mass shortages
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Police impounded taxis that had not complied with government orders to cut fares, stranding commuters, state media reported, while shoppers stampeded stores as cornmeal, bread, meat and other staples vanished from groceries.
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Zimbabweans, struggling to make ends meet amid hyper-inflation, are being asked to dig into their pockets for a party this month to mark President Robert Mugabe's 83rd birthday, an official said.
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Mozambique's government cuts diesel prices for private minibus taxis after deadly riots.
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Prices for raw materials had languished for years, but the sector is now trying to meet burgeoning global demand for iron, copper and other key commodities.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Things have gotten so bad in Zimbabwe that people have taken to telling a wry joke: "What did we have before candles?" The answer: "Electricity." Zimbabwe once boasted one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most vibrant economies, but four years of turmoil have erased that progress.    The agriculture-based economy has been decimated by the often-violent seizure of thousands of white-owned farms for reallocation to black Zimbabweans, coupled with erratic rains...
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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.
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A two-day work boycott called by Zimbabwe&#39;s main union over the country&#39;s deepening economic crisis got off to a slow start Wednesday with shops and services in the capital operating as normal.
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Prices are likely to drop as more outlets, including PC vendors, get into the market.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe bans all pay and price rises in a new bid to curb the country's runaway inflation.
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Zimbabwe has sent crack police to  enforce price freezes in the rural strongholds of President  Robert Mugabe, where businesses have failed to heed measures  aimed at reining in inflation and halting economic collapse.
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Thousands of Zimbabweans waited for hours to get scarce currency from the banks so they could buy food and board buses on Monday for Christmas trips to their home villages.
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Merchants reported huge losses as crowds descended on stores to buy goods at government-ordered prices.
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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Zimbabwe's central bank chief pledged Wednesday that empty shop shelves would soon be replenished as he denounced the "anarchy" inspired by the government's order for retailers to slash their prices in half.
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Zimbabwe's embattled finance minister has set a Herculean task of slashing four-digit inflation by two-thirds and getting the ruined economy back on track, but experts say his latest budget is not up to the job.
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Zimbabweans battled Sunday to change temporary currency into new banknotes before it becomes worthless on December 31, as the country's central bank tries to tackle a shortage of cash in the country.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government on Wednesday warned that the opposition would pay "a heavy price" for what it called a campaign of violence to oust it from power.