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The start-ups plugging the hole in Zimbabwe's economy
2017-06-23 22:56:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Against all the odds, some entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe are running successful small businesses.
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Zimbabwe's import ban fuels smugglers
2016-09-30 15:29:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Import restrictions in Zimbabwe have seen traders resort to smuggling in goods over the border.
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Zimbabwe's 'made to order' boot company
2016-07-22 12:10:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The export-focused shoemaker weathering Zimbabwe's economic crisis.
Amid drought, mystery disease kills Zimbabwe's baobabs
2016-07-04 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A black baobab tree stands forlornly on the side of a highway in Chimanimani district, in the east of Zimbabwe. The tree is one of many in this region afflicted by a mysterious disease, which turns the baobabs black before they lose their branches and die. The giant trees, which dwarf their more common acacia and mopani neighbours in this dry part of the country, have long been revered as a way to survive drought. Families cook and eat the leaves as a vegetable. The fruits can been eaten raw...
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"Sweet business" of beekeeping helps protect Zimbabwe's forests
2016-06-27 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Divas Matinyadze's 47 beehives are hidden away in a dense patch of forest, along a narrow dirt path beside a small river in Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme. "If you cut a tree anywhere near my beehives, you are assured of trouble from me," chuckled Matinyadze. "These trees belong to my bees". He carefully inspected one of the traditional hives, fashioned from a dead tree trunk, warning in a whisper: "Don't come close - the bees are only used to me and can easily be upset." In this part of eastern...
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