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ZIMBABWE: New year, same old problems

HARARE: Several of Zimbabwe's struggling companies have failed to open for business in the New Year, the victims of the country's unending economic crisis.

13 Jan 2009

Paul Nyakazeya, an award winning business journalist, told IRIN the hardest hit firms were those which did not generate foreign currency through export sales, and were therefore unable to pay for their foreign inputs.

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