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Al Jazeera
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Russia-Ukraine war is hurting Zimbabwe’s struggling economy

High food and fuel prices are hurting people in Zimbabwe [File: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg]

Mutare, Zimbabwe–Phillip Kambamura, 32, could not believe that he had just refuelled his taxi for $1.67 per litre in early March in Mutare, the third-largest city of Zimbabwe, up by 23 cents before the Russia-Ukraine war began.

Kambamura drives his taxi around the 40-kilometre radius of Mutare which is near the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

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