From Press Room – U.S. Department of the Treasury- 30th September 2009
Acting Assistant Secretary Andy Baukol
As Prepared for Delivery
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs
“Exploring U.S. Policy Options during Zimbabwe’s Transition”
Chairman Feingold, Senator Isakson, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify at this important hearing on the current situation [...]

From IRIN – 17th July 2009
HARARE, 17 July 2009 (IRIN) – That Zimbabwe needs aid is a given – its battered population has experienced widespread food shortages, hyperinflation and a devastating cholera epidemic – but so far the stumbling block of trust in the institutions responsible for handling money has proved bigger than need.
The formation [...]

From The Zimbabwean – By John Makumbe, 9th May 2009
The wilful destruction of the agricultural sector by the out-going Mugabe regime was instrumental in the escalation of the devastation of service delivery by both the central government and local authorities. The outbreak of cholera was probably the most telling consequence of this decline of the [...]

From The Times (South Africa) by MOSES MUDZWITI – January 30, 2009
ZIMBABWE’S acting finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, yesterday laid bare the shocking economic shambles his country is in when he tabled his national budget in parliament.
Health, electricity and water supply, manufacturing, mining, agriculture and education are all comatose.
Teachers, nurses, junior doctors and other workers are [...]

From Reuters – Mon Feb 2, 2009
HARARE, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s central bank revalued its dollar again on Monday, lopping another 12 zeros off its currency to try to tame hyperinflation and avert economic collapse.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono also said some foreign exchange controls will be relaxed and gold producers now [...]

From  Times Online, UK
As starving Zimbabweans face their bleakest Christmas ever, the head of the state bank puts the last touches to his 47-bedroom palace
Jon Swain, Harare
IN the rich and leafy northern Harare suburb of Borrowdale Brook, Gideon Gono, who as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is President Robert Mugabe’s right-hand man and [...]