Things are so bad in Zimbabwe right now that they can’t pay their electricity bill from neighbouring South Africa. That means much of the country is without power for most of the day. Add to that soaring inflation and mass unemployment and you complete a picture of misery.
Still, the government threw a lavish reception at an international wildlife conference in a plush Victoria Falls hotel last week.
It was a charm offensive led by the president himself; Emmerson Mnangagwa, who gave two days of his time to try to persuade delegates to rip up 30 years of conservation consensus.
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