Friday, December 12, 2008

FRIDAY PICS FROM ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwean depositors wait to withdraw money outside a local bank in Harare on December 12, 2008. Zimbabwe's central bank today unveiled a five hundred million dollar note. Zimbabwe's central bank Friday introduced a 500 million dollar note, as the African country struggles to cope with the world's highest inflation and crippling currency shortages.





A Zimbabwean depositor displays the newly unveiled five hundred million dollar note in Harare on December 12, 2008. Zimbabwe's central bank today unveiled a five hundred million dollar note. Zimbabwe's central bank Friday introduced a 500 million dollar note,






A woman suffering from the symptoms of cholera is taken in a wheelbarrow to a clinic in Harare December 12, 2008. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe announced on Thursday his government had stopped a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 800 people, but the United Nations said the death toll was rising. The United States, which has called on Mugabe to step down, said the outbreak was worsening and South African officials declared a stretch of the border with Zimbabwe a disaster zone because of Zimbabweans fleeing in search of treatment.



A man holds up newly issued 200 million and 500 million Zimbabwe dollar notes in the capital Harare December 12, 2008. Zimbabwe's central bank on December 4, 2008 injected 80 trillion Zimbabwe dollars ($8 million) in new bank notes into the economy in a bid to end cash shortages that have seen hordes besieging banks amid a deepening economic crisis.

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