How Inflation Will Kill Zimbabwean Reporting

From Foreign Policy Blog:

For the last several years, two things have helped keep the world informed of goings on inside Zimbabwe: the internet, and mobile phones. Reports of protests, violence, and cholera have leaked over the borders through text messages and conversations with relatives abroad -- especially in South Africa.

Now, mobile phone companies will start charging customers in dollars in hopes of avoiding the burn from 231 million percent inflation (the country just intoduced a $50 billion note). That means the 94 percent of Zimbabweans who aren't employed will struggle to pay.

And reports will stop leaking out.

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