Last updated: 2 may, 2009 - 05:03 GMT

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Zimbabwe's economic crisis is having a knock on effect on neighbouring companies, for despite persistent promises to clear its debt, the Zimbabwean electricity company, ZESA, still owes large sums of money to the Cahora Bassa Hydro-electric dam company or HCB, on the Zambezi River, in Mozambique.

The debt is now put at 49 million US dollars, but with Zimbabwe's government yesterday proclaiming they are broke settling will not happen overnight.

Jose Tembe reports from Maputo.

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