Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$124.7 million (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4% (2005 est.)
Transnational Issues Zimbabwe
Disputes - international:
Botswana has built electric fences and South Africa has placed
military along the border to stem the flow of thousands of
Zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution;
Namibia has supported and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to
plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi
River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly
delimited Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 400,000-450,000 (MUGABE-led political violence, human rights
violations, land reform, and economic collapse) (2005)
Trafficking in persons:
current situation: Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination
country for women and children trafficked for forced labor and
sexual exploitation; children may be trafficked internally for
forced agricultural labor, domestic servitude, and sexual
exploitation; women and girls are lured out of the country to South
Africa, China, Egypt, and Zambia with false job or scholarship
promises that result in domestic servitude or commercial sexual
exploitation; there are reports of South African employers demanding
sex from undocumented Zimbabwean workers under threat of
deportation; women and children from Malawi, Zambia, and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo transit Zimbabwe en route to South
Africa; small numbers of South African girls are trafficked to
Zimbabwe for domestic labor
tier rating: Tier 3 - Zimbabwe does not fully comply with the
minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not
making significant efforts to do so
Illicit drugs:
transit point for African cannabis and South Asian heroin, mandrax,
and methamphetamines destined for the South African and European
markets
This page was last updated on 19 December, 2006
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@2001 GDP (purchasing power parity)