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"Passports are longer available in Zimbabwe. The office of the Registrar-General has stopped producing them because the cost of importing the special paper required has become unaffordable. The country's economic meltdown in recent years has seen more than 3 million of its about 12 million people seeking employment opportunities in South Africa, Botswana, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada.
The demand for passports - the latest item to become unavailable - already has a four-year backlog, driven by inflation rates hovering at around 1,200 percent a year - the highest in the world - unemployment rates above 70 percent and everyday shortages of food, fuel, clean water and electricity."