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Zim fuel crisis worsens

Harare-Thousands of Zimbabwean commuters were on Tuesday stranded throughout the country as fuel shortages bite,state media reported.People in Harare were spending up to four days looking for buses to take them to rural villages ahead of a public holiday due next week,reported ZBC radio.The report said major highways leading out of Harare were teeming with people trying to get any form of transport that could take them to the rural areas.People were stranded and becoming desperate.Bus operators countrywide had been accused of suspending services in protest over cuts in fares ordered by the government.'Buses allocated 500 litres a week'
An official with the Rural Bus Operators Association said the problem was a lack of fuel. He said operators were being allocated just 500 litres a bus a week,enough for just one and a half days service.On June 26 the authorities ordered prices on all goods and services-including fuel-to be reduced by at least 50% in a bid to reduce inflation and halt spiralling prices.Fuel was now mainly available on the black market for about Z$300 l000 a litre-5 times the official rate.Private urban transport companies had also either scaled back operations, or withdrawn their vehicles from key routes.They said they couldn't run at a loss.
Desperate office and factory workers had to hitch lifts on the back of trucks,or walk.The official Herald daily newspaper admitted on Tuesday that since the imposition of price controls,the state-run oil company had only been importing 1.5 million litres of fuel a day, compared to a national demand of around 6.5 million litres.
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