Zimbabwe: A Secret Trip to ‘Mugabeland’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  04.24.07 | 7:52 AM ET

The Economist hasn’t identified its reporter in Zimbabwe who is posting updates from the rogue state this week. Good thing. Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship has made the country a dangerous place for many, including traveling reporters.

“The government recently let it be known it has a ‘computerised list’ (no less) of journalists who might try to travel without permission,” the anonymous correspondent writes. “But, stepping forward and peering over the immigration desk, I spot what has been true every other time I have been to Harare: the airport can’t afford computers for its staff.”

So far, the dispatches are thrilling in their stealth, and compelling in their details. “There may be no cooking oil in the shops,” he or she writes, “but supermarket shelves bulge with bottles of gin and whisky.”

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