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Cash-strapped Zimbabwe needs $274 million for 2018 election

Zimbabwe's election agency said on Tuesday it needs $274 million to finance next year's presidential and parliamentary elections, in which President Robert Mugabe plans to contest aged 94.

Zimbabwe is suffering severe cash shortages and Mugabe's government is struggling to pay its workers on time while many businesses can't fund the imports they need.

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