Zimbabwe


 * Located between Botswana and Mozambique, borders Zambia
 * Name comes from the Great Zimbabwe
 * Legalized use of foreign currencies after rampant hyperinflation
 * Led since independence by Robert Mugabe
 * Dismissed Peter Walls as head of the army
 * Elected over Joshua Nkomo
 * Landlocked
 * Formally known as Southern Rhodesia
 * Home to Shona people
 * Movement for Democratic Change has emerged to challenge the ZANU-PF party
 * Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 led to the end of white minority rule and the Ian Smith
 * Intervened in support of Laurent Kabila  in the Second Congo War
 * Contains:
 * Bumbusi
 * Site of a wall called the Great Enclosure
 * Southern part of Victoria Falls
 * Cecil Rhodes's grave
 * Gravity-defying boulders in Matobo Hills
 * The Byrd Amendment loosend the US embargo here and allowed it to import chromium