Zimbabwe to Pay Army Next Week, Teachers in August

Zimbabwe will pay July salaries for the army on Monday, more than a week late, but teachers will only receive their wages next month, a union official said, as the government grapples with an acute currency shortage. President Robert Mugabe's government is facing its biggest financial squeeze since it dumped its own hyperinflation-hit currency in 2009 and adopted the U.S. dollar. Continued salary delays could fuel political tensions in the troubled southern African nation, which...

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