Friday, 30 January 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009

 

Disappearances, Despotism, Dollarization






Foreign Confidential....


As runaway inflation ravages Zimbabwe, and the US dollar is increasingly used instead of the local currency, the African nation is descending into a despotic hell. 

The BBC's Karen Allen reports:
Journalists, human rights activists and other critics of Robert Mugabe's presidency have recently vanished.

More than 20 people have disappeared in just the past few weeks - people are terrified.
Click here for the whole story.