Harare, Zimbabwe
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Nathan is a multi-award winning investigative reporter for The NewsHawks in Zimbabwe interested in public resource governance, politics, gender and technology.
The story shows how government failed to cushion vulnerable people using dividends from a US$1 billion Special Drawing Rights (SDR) windfall from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said, among other things, would be used to support those hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Zimbabwe locked about 550 Malawian citizens in prisons after being arrested in the country en route to or from South Africa without adequate travelling documents. International law says the people are irregular immigrants, not undocumented ones hence they should be kept in migrant holding facilities.
The story is about how Rostec, a Russian state-owned conglomerate, has chosen a low-hanging fruit — the supply of equipment to Zimbabwe, after pulling out of the much-hyped US$3 billion Darwendale platinum mining deal in Zimbabwe two years ago.
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