Zimbabwe has issued its own currency for the first time since 2009 to try to ease biting shortages of the United States dollar.
Queues were formed outside Banks in Zimbabwe as people hoped to get hold of the country’s first Zimbabwean dollar notes to be issued since 2009.
The currency was scrapped a decade ago because of hyperinflation when prices were almost doubling every day.
Zimbabwe’s central bank hopes the new notes will ease a severe cash shortage as the country suffers a deepening economic crisis.
The bank has played down fears that the move will fuel further inflation.
The latest data published by the International Monetary Fund puts the current inflation rate at three hundred per cent.
Meanwhile, Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo has introduced a second vaccine to fight the deadly Ebola virus in the east of the country.
A report says the new vaccine, is aimed at protecting about fifty thousand people over a period of four months.
More than two hundred and fifty thousand people in the region have already been received doses of another anti-Ebola vaccine since last year.
Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola epidemic in August 2018 in the conflict-wracked eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, bordering Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
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