Zimbabwe: $2billion buys a can of cooking oil


	Zimbabwe: $2billion buys a can of cooking oil

michellezm

5-12-2008 2:02 PM

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5-12-2008 4:10 PM

Socratoad

My gawd when will that damn madman go into exile and end the horrendous suffering of all the people except his own corrupt minions

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Before Zimbabwe's disputed elections in March, 2 billion Zimbabwe dollars could get you a room in a five-star hotel. 
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</P><P>Today, Gabriel Matope hopes it will buy him two litres of cooking oil - if he can find some.
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</P><P>More than six weeks after the poll and ahead of an expected run-off in which the opposition wants to end President Robert Mugabe's 28 years in power, Zimbabwe's economic crisis is deepening every day and pushing ordinary citizens to despair.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566005&in_page_id=1811">
Hopes for change are giving way to resignation as citizens wonder whether the run-off - for which a date has still not been set -- can actually end the turmoil.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566005&in_page_id=1811">their country's economic meltdown, which has triggered inflation of 165,000 percent, 80 percent unemployment, severe food and fuel shortages, and a flood of refugees to neighbouring states.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=566005&in_page_id=1811">
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