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Fuel shortage worsens

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe’s fuel shortages were expected to worsen after it was announced by industry sources that the 350 km pipeline carrying fuel from the Mozambique coast had been shut because of non-payment.

    Media reports on Tuesday quoted industry sources as saying the pipeline had been turned off on Monday night. The fuel crisis started last month after the state-owned National Oil Company of Zimbabwe said it could not pay fuel bills estimated at some US $47-million.

    In a bid to pre-empt the crisis which has already manifested itself in the form of long queues at petrol stations, news reports said Transport Minister Enos Chikowore would join Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa’s in Dubai on Thursday to meet Omani and Kuwaiti suppliers.

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