Violence mars Zimbabwe election recounts - 23 Apr 08

Zimbabwe - a country paralyzed by political uncertainty and now caught in the midst of a wave of post election violence.

The opposition claims at least 10 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured, mostly during what they say has been a campaign of intimidation by supporters of Robert Mugabe.

It is a claim his ruling ZANU-PF party has denied.

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Dire conditions on Zimbabwe’s railways - 20 Apr 2008

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Harare on the dire conditions on Zimbabwe’s railways. People endure 14 hours of ‘travel hell’ in cramped, unhygienic, unsafe and uncomfortable conditions - because it is cheap and therefore affordable.

Zimbabwe pensioners struggle with inflation 15 Apr 2008

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports about the forgotten victims of the Zimbabwean economic crisis. They are penniless, but the irony is that some of them had good jobs. The money they diligently put away for retirement is gone, eaten away by the country’s soaring inflation levels.

Displaced Zimbabweans await new homes - 30 March 2008

Despite their country’s severe economic problems, many voters in Zimbabawe chose not to go to the polls on Saturday.

Among them were thousands of people displaced during President Robert Mugabe’s so-called “clean-up” operation in 2005. The project moved an estimated 300,000 people from slums.

But as Haru Mutasa reports, many are still waiting for their promised new home.

Zimbabwean farmers face tough times - 26 March 08

Zimbabwe’s economy has long been a contentious issue, with annual inflation running at 100,000 per cent, the highest in the world.

The government has tried to increase output by giving farmers free tractors, but critics say the machinery amounts to a bribe ahead of elections.

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa went to Matebeleland to hear about one farmer’s daily struggle.

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