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Zimbabwe: running out of cash

Zimbabwe's new leader says his priority is to rebuild the country's economy. It's a big task: the Zimbabwean dollar went into free-fall and was replaced by a Zimbabwean bond… which nobody wants. And there's a desperate shortage of dollars.

Newsday's Julian Keane went to a market with Harare resident, Terry, to find out about the ongoing "cash crisis".

(Photo: Harare residents with some of the rare US dollars in circulation. Credit: BBC).

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