Zimbabwe inflation: -1.1 percent
We’re going down. Or up.
From the Al Jazeera television network: Aid agencies warn that more people in Zimbabwe people will have to rely on food handouts as an acute shortage of food persists.
Big-ish news out of Zim: After months of violence, negotiation, pressure and reluctant compromise, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in on Wednesday as the prime minister of a government in which his nemesis, President Robert G. Mugabe, still dominates the repressive state security forces.
The announcement will see Z$1 trillion reduced to Z$1 (US$0.33).