Friday, May 8, 2009

Harare, Thursday, May, 7, 2009....first day of the tobacco selling season..PICS

Zimbabwean Farmers arrive with their tobacco on the first day of the tobacco selling season in Harare, Thursday, May, 7, 2009. According to independent stakeholders they were expecting prices to be firm this season although the biggest determinant would be the quality of the crop. Zimbabwe has appealed for close to US$1 Billion to help revive the economy now been run by an all inclusive government.





Businessmen inspect tobacco leaves, mostly for export, at Tobacco Sales Floor Ltd. in Harare May 7, 2009. Zimbabwe has secured an additional credit line of $250 million from the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) to help its economic reconstruction and plans to issue a bond by July, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Thursday.





Zimbabwean farmers sit on bags of tobacco leaves, mostly for export, at Tobacco Sales Floor Ltd. in Harare May 7, 2009.





An unidentified woman and her baby wait to sell their tobacco on the first day of the tobacco selling season in Harare, Thursday, May, 7, 2009. According to independent stakeholders they were expecting prices to be firm this season although the biggest determinant would be the quality of the crop. Zimbabwe has appealed for close to US$1 Billion to help revive the economy now been run by an all inclusive government.





Zimbabwean farmers wait to sell their tobacco on the first day of the tobacco selling season in Harare, Thursday, May, 7, 2009





Zimbabwean farmer Chipo Chisya with her baby waits to sell her tobacco, on the first day of the tobacco selling season in Harare, Thursday, May, 7, 2009.





Zimbabwean auctioners sell tobacco on the first day of the tobacco selling season in Harare, Thursday, May, 7, 2009.





Businessmen walk past tobacco leaves, mostly for export, at Tobacco Sales Floor Ltd. in Harare May 7, 2009. Zimbabwe has secured an additional credit line of $250 million from the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) to help its economic reconstruction and plans to issue a bond by July, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Thursday.





A Zimbabwean farmer looks at bags of tobacco, mostly for export, at Tobacco Sales Floor Ltd. in Harare May 7, 2009.






Kallie Kriel, head of the civil rights initiative group Afriforum, places an anti Mugabe poster outside the Zimbabwe embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday May 7, 2009, to protest the invitation extended to the Zimbabwe President by South African authorities to attend the presidential inauguration for Jacob Zuma Saturday May 9, 2009.


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