Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote

September 14th, 2009 UN tries to boost Zimbabwe's collapsed schoolsHARARE, Zimbabwe — The U.N. children's fund says the collapse of Zimbabwe's schooling system means up to 10 pupils are sharing one text book, while some rural schools have no books at all.

September 11th, 2009 Official: 1,500 Zimbabwe prisoners to be freedHARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwe official says 1,500 prisoners are being released across the country under a presidential amnesty program designed to ease overcrowding. Elizabeth Banda, manager for Zimbabwe's prisons, says 150 have already been freed from Harare Central Remand Prison, the first of Zimbabwe's 46 prisons to begin the program.

August 19th, 2009 11 killed in truck-bus accident in ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Police say a truck hit a bus head-on in Zimbabwe, killing 11 people including six members of a family returning from a funeral. Rangarirai Mushaurwa, an assistant police commissioner, said Wednesday the truck driver, who was among the dead, was trying to overtake a third vehicle Tuesday night just outside Harare.

August 15th, 2009 The "Zimdollar:" Dead, but still used for bus fareHARARE, Zimbabwe — A woman pays her bus fare with 3 trillion in old Zimbabwe dollars — the equivalent of 50 U.S. cents. The collector accepts the brick of neatly folded bundles of a trillion each without bothering to count the notes.

August 3rd, 2009 40 killed in Zimbabwe bus crashHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe state radio says a crowded bus slammed into a truck on a stretch of highway notorious for accidents, killing 40 people and injuring another 30. Monday's radio report said the bus swerved to avoid another stationary truck on the southbound highway 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Harare on Sunday.

August 3rd, 2009 40 die in bus Zimbabwe bus crashHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe state radio says a crowded bus slammed into a truck on a stretch of highway notorious for accidents, killing 40 people and injuring another 30. Monday's radio report said the bus swerved to avoid another stationary truck on the southbound highway 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Harare on Sunday.

June 9th, 2009 Obama to welcome Zimbabwe's prime ministerWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will welcome the prime minister of Zimbabwe to the White House on Friday. The White House said Monday that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (SVAHNG'-ur-eye) will meet with Obama in the Oval Office to discuss how they can create a stable democratic future for Zimbabwe.

April 12th, 2009 HARARE - Zimbabwe's new coalition government has decided to withdraw the country's worthless currency from circulation for at least a year and rely exclusively on other hard currencies, according to reports Sunday. Economic Planning Minister Elton Mangoma was quoted in the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper as saying that the Zimbabwe dollar, whose value was sent crashing by an official policy of the former regime of President Robert Mugabe to print huge volumes of cash to keep up with state spending, 'will be out at least for a year'.

March 19th, 2009 HARARE - Zimbabwe's new Finance Minister Tendai Biti Wednesday indicated that the country's national currency Zimbabwe dollar is no longer in use, New Ziana reported. Presenting a revised 2009 Budget to parliament, Biti said: 'The death of the Zimbabwe dollar is a reality we have to live with.

February 25th, 2009 WELLINGTON - The New Zealand cricket team's scheduled tour of Zimbabwe in July has been postponed until next year, it was announced here Wednesday. Justin Vaughan, chief executive of New Zealand Cricket, said he and his Zimbabwe counterpart, Ozias Bvute, had agreed to put off the tour for 11 months after talks during an International Cricket Council meeting in Johannesburg.

February 23rd, 2009 AUCKLAND - The New Zealand government is unlikely to send its cricket team to Zimbabwe for the series in July. Prime Minister John Key said that sending the team to politically unstable Zimbabwe will be a risk.

February 1st, 2009 HARARE - Zimbabwe's central bank slashed another 12 zeroes off the country's worthless currency Monday, shrinking 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars into a single Zimbabwe dollar. The move by Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono comes just six months after he lobbed ten zeroes off the money in August last year.

January 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited the Zimbabwe President's XI to play in the limited overs Deodhar Trophy cricket along with the five zonal home teams. The move comes after Zimbabwe Cricket Union's (ZCU) chairman Peter Chingoka met BCCI president Shashank Manohar and secretary N.

January 23rd, 2009 HARARE - At each till in a large supermarket in the upmarket Avondale suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare is a small, much-handled cardboard tray containing boiled sweets, boxes of matches and a few loose eggs. Most customers in the queue are paying in US dollars.

December 28th, 2008 JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has lifted a blockade on aid to Zimbabwe because of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the neighbouring country, a South African presidential spokesman said Monday. South Africa halted aid to Zimbabwe earlier in a bid to build pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the opposition to hasten the formation of a national unity government.