Zimbabwe’s new gold-backed currency started trading on Monday amid doubts that the country’s third such re-launch in a decade will have any more success in ending repeated, crippling bouts of high inflation.
Rescuers carried out search operations off the northern coast of Mozambique on Monday after a makeshift ferry boat carrying people fleeing a cholera outbreak capsized, killing at least 97.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has spoken about the West’s failures, particularly those of the United Nations and France, in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, which started 30 years ago this week.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and President Cyril Ramaphosa have agreed they prefer a political solution to – rather than military action around – Rwanda’s disagreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
From 7 April 1994 until a hundred days later, on 15 July, at least 800 000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in Rwanda. But even as that slaughter continued, much of the world’s attention was on South Africa’s historic transition from apartheid.
Zimbabwe’s central bank launched a new “structured currency” backed by gold on Friday, as it seeks to tackle sky-high inflation and stabilise the country’s long-floundering economy.