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Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe set to frustrate eager investors

July 13, 2018 5:10 AM EDT

By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock

HARARE (Reuters) - A European investor's phone rings in a Harare restaurant and it's good news: an $80 million construction deal has been agreed with the Zimbabwean government. All that's needed now is a central bank guarantee letter. It never arrives.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took power when Robert Mugabe was removed in a de facto coup last November, has been trying to woo investors ahead of an election on July 30, a contest in which he is the narrow favorite.

Mnangagwa, a 75-year-old former ally of Mugabe, says he has already... More