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Dirty Money in Zimbabwe

People queue all night to get filthy notes in a country which is running out of cash

People queue all night to get filthy notes in a country which is running out of cash. Lesley Curwen visits Harare, the country's capital and talks to those who have to spend all night outside the bank and who then often don't manage to get any cash. And also when they do it's so dirty that it's not accepted outside the country. Plus Monica de Bolle of the Petersen Institute research group in Washington tells Manuela Saragosa about the economic similarities between Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

(Picture: People queue outside a bank in Harare; Credit: Zinyange Auntony/AFP/Getty Images)

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Wed 13 Jun 2018 07:32GMT

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