Aid agencies are scrambling to reach survivors of Cyclone Idai, which swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, destroying towns and villages in its path.
Zimbabwe, without its own currency for a decade, took steps to address its worsening economic crisis by allowing its surrogate currency, bond notes, and electronic funds to float freely against other major currencies, abandoning an official but artificial parity with the dollar.
Rights group Amnesty International has welcomed the decision by Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court to outlaw a public order act that prohibits demonstration without authorisation from the police.
