Saturday, May 13, 2006

Inflation now over 1000 percent

Zimbabwe's annual inflation rose above 1,000 per cent in April, dramatizing the severity of an economic crisis which analysts say could trigger protests against President Robert Mugabe's government. Zimbabwe, in its eighth year of recession, has the fastest-shrinking economy of a country outside a war zone, according to the World Bank, and the highest inflation rate in the world.

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