Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe, officially known as Republic of Zimbabwe. It is a country in southern Africa. No coastal ocean is limited to the north west Botswana with Zambia to the south by South Africa and east byMozambique. It has eight regions and only two cities Bulawayo and Harare. Human development index is the lowest worldwide.
History
The original settlers were Bantu migrations to the Khoisan peoples.A late 19 th century the English colonization began taking to end the exploitation of mines. At that time the country was divided into Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia. In 1964 Britain grantedindependence to Northern Rhodesia but not until 1965 that is granted to Southern Rhodesia.
In 1979, Prime Minister chooses the color and baptizes the country under the name of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. In1980 the country achieved full independence before the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Government
Zimbabwe is a parliamentary republic the president is to turn the head of state and head of government. Theparliament consists of two chambers of 150 representatives from these 10 are heads of tribes. The current president is Robert Mugabe's political party Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.Both the European Union and the United States have enacted sanctions against the current government and its president for human rights violation.
Economy
The government faces many problems in theeconomy. These include a lack of foreign money prevailing hyperinflation and shortages of food and the local population tends to buy essential commodities in neighboring countries. Agriculturalexports, minerals and tourism as the main gateway chromium being its main export product but government mismanagement dl everything has fallen. Currently, the local currency is the local currency rand fellinto total disuse
Demography
Zimbabwe has estimated more than 12, 000.000 inhabitants of whom 37.2% are between 0 and 14 years, 59.3% between 15 and 64 years and 3.5% were 65 years or more. Most...
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