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Behind the long, long wait for a Zimbabwean passport

Source: Business Day, 10/12/2021

Zimbabwe has brought down its passport backlog from 400,000 last August
to about 185,000. But accessing travel documents quickly is a
prohibitively expensive process for most
Vitalis Tsikwa is dejected as he steps onto the dusty red soil outside
the Makombe building in Harare, Zimbabwe.
`They told me to come and do the application to get my passport on
December 15 because they wanted to clear a backlog,` Tsikwa tells the
FM. `I wanted an emergency 24-hour passport â€¦ I thank God that I didnâ€™t
have immediate travel plans.`..
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