Inflation in Zimbabwe is nine million per cent, a Z$50bn note is worth just 17 GBpence - the cost of a single egg - and there is more than 80 per cent unemployment. How are ordinary people coping with this disastrous economic meltdown?

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How are people coping with Zimbabwe's disastrous economic meltdown? Chris McGreal reports

IF you build it, they will come. The quote is credited to the 26th US president, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. at the time of the building of the Panama Canal in 1904. I thought about this quote as I strolled along Speke Road in Kampala last Thursday afternoon.

Pallo Jordan is the man the ANC refers to as "the intellectual". He is also the minister of arts and culture with an expressed passion for freedom of expression.

ZIMBABWE'S political crisis scaled new heights this week with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrawing from today's presidential run-off -- a move analysts said was politically understandable, but legally wrong.

HARARE giants Dynamos will have to race against time in working on their shortcomings before they engage African Champions League holders Etoile Sportive Sahel of Tunisia in the capital in two weeks time.