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Health workers carry placards as they protest against economic hardship and poor working conditions during the coronavirus disease (COVID19) outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe July 6, 2020. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
Police in Zimbabwe arrested 12 nurses protesting outside state hospitals on Monday demanding to be paid in U.S. dollars as inflation running at nearly 800% was eroding their salaries, the country’s nurses’ union said.
An economic crisis under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revived memories of the hardships of more than a decade ago when hyperinflation wiped out savings and pensions and forced the country to dump its currency in favour of the U.S. dollar.
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