Rampant inflation has prompted Zimbabwe's central bank to introduce a new half-a-billion dollar bank note.
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Bush outlines climate policy principles ... set of high denomination notes to be issued this year in the southern African nation whose economic crisis has left 80 percent of the population impoverished amid mass shortages of basis goods. Last week the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued a 250-million-dollar note that's worth about one US dollar. The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change or MDC, has rejected the delay until late July of the run-off presidential election that was announced by Zimbabwe's electoral commission on Wednesday. The MDC says the run-off should be held next week. Its candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has claimed that he beat veteran President Robert Mugabe outright in the first round on March 29.
(Deutsche Welle)
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