Fuel crisis: When the ground is rich, but the ground rules are poor

Zimbabwe finds itself once again at the mercy of events far beyond its borders.

The latest increase in fuel prices, triggered by geopolitical shocks in the Middle East, is a reminder of a brutal and familiar truth: our economy remains dangerously exposed to external disruption because we have not yet built the internal capacity to insulate ourselves from it.

When oil markets sneeze in the Gulf, Zimbabwe catches pneumonia.

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