source: allAfrica
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
7 May 2008
Posted to the web 7 May 2008
Bulawayo
In the latest blow to Zimbabwe’s wounded economy, the Botswana government has banned the export of bulk fuel to the neighbouring country. Scanty parallel market supplies are quickly running dry and transport is grinding to a halt across Zimbabwe.
Botswana’s authorities began turning back Zimbabwean fuel buyers last week at the border posts in Kasane, in the far northeast, and Maitengwe, about 130km north of Francistown, Botswana’s second city, but the main Plumtree border post, about 100km southeast of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, was still allowing single drums through.
“The move by the Botswana authorities is surprising, and as it is [being implemented] right now, I only managed to bring in a single drum of fuel, which will only give me 200 litres of petrol [continue reading]
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