#Africa Zimbabwe: a country bonded in crisis

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A man wearing a hat decorated with worthless note bearers' cheques during a protest against government plans to introduce bond notes -- a local token currency equivalent to the US dollar, and unemployement on August 3, 2016 in Harare. Many Zimbabweans fear the bond notes could revive the hyperinflation that destroyed the economy in 2008 and 2009. Police squads had earlier closely monitored the marchers, who had planned to hand in a petition at the finance ministry to demand the bond notes are not issued. / AFP PHOTO / ZINYANGE AUNTONY

Police patrolled the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, throughout August in an attempt to disperse hundreds of demonstrators that took to the streets.…

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