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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
National
Chris Muronzi

Zimbabwe’s illegal forex dealers use WhatsApp to find clients, evade police

An informal money changer checks old US dollars at a marketplace in Harare, Zimbabwe [File: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters]

Harare, Zimbabwe – The entrance to the main gate at the Budiriro shopping centre, a busy mall south of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, used to be a hive of activity where informal forex dealers had set up makeshift “offices” on the pavement.

Now the area is all but abandoned.

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