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Zimbabwe inflation soars to 540%

Mar 09, 2020 - 7:45 PM

The inflation rate in Zimbabwe surges to 540.16% in February 2020

TOUGH TIMES. Emily Maphosa, 78, cooks on March 2, 2019, at her home in Emakhandeni Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Her country's economic situation has dramatically deteriorated. Photo by Zinyange Auntony/AFP

Inflation nightmare returns to haunt Zimbabwe

Apr 21, 2019 - 9:50 PM

Prices of goods and services in Zimbabwe are skyrocketing at rates unseen in a decade. 'It's a miracle how people are surviving,' says a resident.

Emily Maphosa, 78, cooks on March 2, 2019 at her home in Emakhandeni Bulawayo. - For years now Maphosa has been ordering most her groceries from South Africa using the service of informal couriers. Items are loaded in Johannesburg onto trailers attached to minibuses which make the 550 kilometres (340 miles) journey north to the border of Zimbabwe, where economic situation has dramatically deteriorated, pushing inflation above 50 percent, and shortages of household essentials have become widespread. (Photo by ZINYANGE AUNTONY / AFP)