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Zim Cyber City: urban utopia or spy menace?

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In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech “cyber city” a world away from the traffic-clogged streets and overcrowded slums of the country’s nearby capital.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, eager to highlight positive news about the country’s troubled economy, launched the first $500-million (about R9 billion) stage of the Zim Cyber City project last year in partnership with Dubai-based company Mulk International.

It could require a

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