Last updated: 5 february, 2010 - 17:08 GMT

Zimbabwe strike

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Zimbabwean civil servants have downed tools countrywide demanding a pay rise of up to 400 percent.

It is the first industrial action to face the fragile year old power sharing government.

Despite a government position that it doesn't have enough money due to poor revenue collection; civil servants say enough money has been raised from the sale of diamonds and other minerals.

From Harare the BBC's Brian Hungwe reports.

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