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Zimbabwe Issues - 2024


SOURCE: 2024 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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Disputes - international

Zimbabwe-Mozambique: none identified

Zimbabwe-South Africa:
South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to control smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration

Zimbabwe-Zambia:
in 2004, Zimbabwe dropped objections to plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river; in May 2021, Botswana and Zambia agreed in principle to let Zimbabwe be a partner in the bridge project as it enters its lasts phase

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 9,931 (Mozambique) (2023); 12,284 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (refugees and asylum seekers) (2024)

Illicit drugs

transit point for cannabis and South Asian heroin, methaqualone, and methamphetamines en route to South Africa

NOTE: The information regarding Zimbabwe on this page is re-published from the 2024 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Zimbabwe 2024 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Zimbabwe 2024 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.

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