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Residents of Harare, Zimbabwe, wait in line for sugar outside a warehouse in the capital, July 24, 2007. President Robert Mugabe has instituted price controls to combat the world's highest inflation rate -- at least 4,500 percent -- and food shortages are worsening in a country that once exported food throughout southern Africa.
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Residents of Harare, Zimbabwe, wait in line to buy loaves of bread under government-ordered price controls, July 24, 2007. President Robert Mugabe has instituted price controls to combat the world's highest inflation rate.
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A black-market dealer sells sacks of flour in a marketplace outside the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, July 24, 2007. Government-ordered price controls have exacerbated shortages of basic goods such as flour, sugar and milk, which are now sold on the black market for three or four times the legal price.
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