Politics

Zimbabwe’s Security Forces Sideline Government as Economy Crashes

  • Economic chiefs bypassed as national currency plunges
  • Measure shows military growing impatient with president
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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Zimbabwe’s security force leaders sidelined the nation’s economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situation said.